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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I see you “back East 
folks' 5 have bad a blizzard. Accept the con¬ 
dolences of your Nebraska readers; we have 
been there. But from what you say and from 
what other papers say it could not have 
equaled ours of January 12. One New York 
paper says that they couldn’t see anything 
that was more than 100 feet away. Here dur¬ 
ing that awful day if you could see flve feet 
away you were possessed of remarkable eye¬ 
sight. You had, I should judge, more snow, 
but we had worse winds; we must have had, 
for you could not have seen your nose, still less 
100 feet ahead. You speak of going 1 % mile 
during the storm. Do you think we could 
have done that in the face of the wind we 
had here? If you do I will just invite you out 
here next winter to see what a genuine “bliz” 
is. It is comical, as you say, to us in Nebras¬ 
ka, the land of high winds and blizzards, to 
read the horrified exclamations of you “East¬ 
ers” over your first taste. Let us hope it is 
your last. Your sincere friend, 
Chicago, Antelope Co., Neb. a. k. frost. 
LU. M.—We are well satisfied with our storm 
and don’t w'ant to hunt about for a worse one 
just to say we have seen it. Nebraska can 
have the prize—we won’t say a word in favor 
of our blizzard.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: 1 have not written to 
you in a year, and never but that one time. 
Fearing you might forget all about me, I 
thought I would write once more. I shall not 
forget you, for every week I look over our 
Rural to see what I can find from you and 
the Cousins. I like to read the Cousin’s let¬ 
ters. I have not seen many letters for a long 
time. We are having very good sleighing 
just now. I am going to school this winter. 
I thank you very much for the flower seeds 
you sent us though they did not all come up. 
What.did, were very pretty. Papa put up 
an ice house last week for us. We have a 
canary. We call him Dick. He is a lovely 
singer. Last winter Papa wintered 85 hens: 
from the first of January, 1887, to the 81st of 
December, 1887 they laid 3,801 eggs, besides 
hatching about 700 chickens, ducks and tur¬ 
keys. I wish you could come here Easter. 
I think we could give you all the eggs you 
could eat, for we are getting lots of them this 
winter again, and we would get better ac¬ 
quainted. ROSA E. MOHR. 
Crawford Co., Penn. 
[U. M.—When I make my rounds you may 
be sure that 1 will come and see you.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: I have intended to 
write for some time, but thought I would 
wait till the “Andersonville Violets” ended. I 
thought it was a very nice story. The weather 
here is quite different from what it was 
last year; there was snow one foot deep. You 
must have had quite a hard time in your last 
snow-storm. I noticed a letter by Lena Ben- 
net in the paper a week or so ago, that 1 liked 
pretty well. I don’t think many hired men 
would make their beds to suit me. If you 
have room will you print some pieces suitable 
for reading and speaking at literary societies 
and such places? Our school closed the sec¬ 
ond day of March. Some of the Cousins write 
about wading through the snow when they 
went to school; but 1 waded through mud the 
greater portion of the time. I will close now, 
hoping to see my letter in print. 
Centralia, Ills. blue bell. 
[U. M.—I will print some pieces for speak¬ 
ing later on. 1 guess most hired men would 
make a great botch of their bed-making ] 
Dear Uncle Mark: I wrote to you before 
and my letter did not get into the waste basket, 
so I will write again and see if I will have as 
good luck as before. I live about six miles 
from General Putnam’s monument. It is to 
be dedicated June 14. It you will come to the 
dedication we will carry you to the den where 
General Putnam killed the wolf. When I 
was about six years old I went with my 
mother to the General Putnam house and ate 
supper in his dining-room. I had some very 
pretty flowers from the seed you sent me; one 
we never saw before. I think it must have 
been the canary bird flower. I have to take 
care of the hens. We have about 30 hens; 
they have laid 625 eggs since the first of Jan¬ 
uary. Your Niece, fannie e brown. 
Canterbury, Conn. 
[U. M.—Good for the hens, Isay. I would 
like to go into the den, though if I knew there 
was a wolf there now, 1 guess I would keep 
away.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: We would like to 
join tne Y. H. C. and be Cousins too. We are 
twin sisters, 11 years of age. Last summer 
we built a new house. We have only taken 
the Rural two years. Papa says it is the 
best paper he has ever taken. For pets we 
have three eats, two dogs and two colts. 
The cats’ names are Mabel, Dick and Bessie. 
The dogs’ names are Tom and Taffy Snider. 
The colts are Nellie and Tressy. Your Nieces, 
SUSIE AND SADIE ALEXANDER. 
[U. M.—Our old dog is getting pretty feeble 
now. He is like an old man of 70 years. Too 
bad! He was a good dog in his day.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: This is my first letter. 
I am 10 years old. I have six brothers and 
one sister. We walk nearly one mile to 
school. We have a pair of skates. We skated 
to school all last week. Pa has got nearly 100 
head of horses, and lots of cattle and hogs and 
sheep. We have a shepherd dog named 
Rootus. Yours truly, emma m. simpson. 
Palmer, 111. 
POST-OFFICE CLUB. 
Our folks have been discussing the “flag 
episode” that disturbed New-Yorkers for a 
time. It appears that the Irish wanted 
Mayor Hewitt to review their parade on St. 
Patrick’s Day, and of course they wanted the 
green flag of Ireland to fly from the City 
Hall. The Mayor, it appears, gave them to 
understand that the American flag was the 
flag for Americans whether they came from 
Ireland, France, Germany or Iceland. If 
they don’t believe in the American flag they 
are not Americans. “No foreign flag shall 
float from the City Hall while I am Mayor,” he 
said, and that sentiment has the unanimous 
indorsement of the Post Office Club. The 
following remarks by Uncle Jacob state our 
case as we want it stated. 
“De Amerigan flag vas someding dot vas 
hard to split mit a piece off. I vas an im- 
borted Amerigan, but I vas shust so ready to 
lif und die mit dis foundry. I vas a young 
man ven I gomes from Chermany. I looks 
around here und I says to myself, ‘Dis vas de 
goundry for me—dis vas der blace for a man 
dot vants to make someding mit himself.’ I 
vas fink der matter ofer und I decide dot I 
neffer could be two beebles—I could not pe a 
Cherman und an Amerigan at der same dime. 
Von off dem characters must drop out. So I 
says I vill be an Amerigan—I vill lif und die 
mit dis goundry, und vile I cannot forget my 
olt home mit der old goundry, I vill look at 
dot home shust like a dream vile my real und 
bractigal home vill always be here. Ven der 
var broke out I sayd to myself, ‘Here vas der 
chance to broof how much off an Amerigan 
you vas.’ It seemed shust a little queer dot I 
vas fighting for der olt flag vile blendy off 
native Amerigans vas fighting against it, but 
I sayd to myself, ‘I lofes dis goundry, because 
it vas der land off der free. I vas so unfortu* 
nate dot I vas born tree tousand miles away } 
but I vill make dot all right so dot my yild. 
ren dey can say dot dey haf blenty off right 
mit det freedom off dis land.’ Veil, I vas not 
run away mit der var, und ven I vas gome 
marchin back mit my gun I vas make up my 
mind dot I vas enditled to call myself an 
Amerigan shust as much as dem fellers dot 
stayed avay from der frond, even do dey vas 
born mid dis goundry. Now den, ven fellers 
asks me apout raising der flag off Chermany 
mit my house, I says, ‘My flag vas der Amer¬ 
igan flag effery dime. Dot flag vas goot 
enough for me und my yildren. I vas no 
longer a Cherman, und until 1 vas pecome von 
again, der Amerigan flag vas all der flag I 
wants If I divides myself petween two flags 
neider off dem flags vas honored.” 
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$100 will be paid for anything poisonous 
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TH0E0UGHBRED Geese, and Turkeys, 
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MASTIFF, Specialty great size. Litter of pups 
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Raise No More Wheat 
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POULTNEY, VT. 
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OR 
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