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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PERSONALS. 
Senator Turpie, of Indiana, made his 
maiden speech in the Senate last week in fa¬ 
vor of the admission of Dakota. He made a 
fine impression. 
Senator Stockbridge, of Michigan, is a 
big man, with a full gray beard, who loves a 
good story and a fast horse. He wants the 
animal to be handsome as well as rapid, and 
declares that homely horses ought to be barred 
out. 
Mr. Herbert Gladstone is said to bear a 
striking physical resemblance to his illustri¬ 
ous father of years ago, and speaks with “the 
same seductive sweetness of accent, the same 
light, silvery tone, the same unfaltering even 
ness and smoothness of pronunciation.” 
Mr. Harrison, the “boy preacher” who is 
conducting the great revival in this city, is 
described as a boyish-looking man with thin 
features and a smooth face. He is not con¬ 
sidered a very powerful orator, but is full of 
energy and has a gentle, winning face that 
inspires confidence. 
Mr. A. Bronson Alcott was a vegetarian, 
and often criticised meat-eaters harshly. To 
one of them he declared one day that the 
eater of mutton becomes a sheep, the eater of 
pork becomes a hog, etc. “And is it also 
true,” interposed the other, “that eaters of 
vegetables become small potatoes?” 
Miss Hampton, daughter of Wade Hamp¬ 
ton, of South Carolina, has joined the ranks 
of professional nurses in New York. She is 
said to be unusually capable, and when she 
finishes her course here will return to the 
South, where she will not only practice her 
profession, but instruct others in the art of 
nursing. 
Benjamin Harris Brewster was quick 
and brilliant at repartee. On one occasion a 
friend attempted to banter him on his fond¬ 
ness for the lady whom he afterward wedded. 
“She is,” remarked this friend, “quite a 
charming lady.” “Well,” said Mr. Brewster, 
“what is that to me?” “Why,” said the other, 
“it is rumored that you are going to marry 
her.” ‘“Well,” said Mr. Brewster, “what is 
that to you?” 
The late ex-Governor John T. Hoffman was 
a familiar figure on the streets of New York. 
He was a particularly fine-looking man, with 
thick black hair and a long black mustache 
sweeping over a strong mouth and square 
jaw. Of late years he has been out of poli¬ 
tics, and practically out of business. In his 
walks about town he was usually accompa¬ 
nied by two little Skye terriers that trotted at 
his heels. 
“The Graysons,” a story now running in 
the Century, is by the author of the “Hoosier 
Schoolmaster.” The new story shows few of 
the characteristics that tended to make old 
“Mis,” “Means,” “Bud,” “Hannah” and 
“Shockey,” so well known to the reading pub¬ 
lic. It is longer and more verbose. Still, 
there are some excellent situations in it. One 
of the best is the courtship between the school¬ 
master, Hiram Mason, and Barbara. Hiram 
finally reduced his proposal to the following 
statement of an “example” in algebra: 
a = another lover. 
6 = objections to H. Mason. 
c = interfering circumstances. 
x= a -f- b + c. 
find the value of x. 
Barbara found it as follows: 
a — 0 
6=0 
therefore x c. 
for tl )t Poirng. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I doubt whether I 
might be called a Cousin or not, as I haven’t 
written for so long a time. We are having 
cloudy and windy weather now. Did any of 
the Cousins get fooled April 1st? I didn’t. I 
wouldn’t like to live in Montana; it would be 
too cold for me. The coldest here last winter 
was 28 degrees below zero, if I remember right, 
and we thought that was cold for Kansas. Un¬ 
cle Mark, you don’t seem to have a large 
enough family. Why don’t more of the Cous¬ 
ins write? Some seem to be hiding behind the 
door and in the corners. I guess they are 
playing at hide-and-seek. Come, pick in and 
write; don’t be afraid some one will bite you, 
for I am sure I won’t. Minnie Gunn, if you 
will send me your pattern I will exchange 
some pieces with you. 
My address is Alta Vista, Wabunsee Co., 
Kansas. Yours truly, nellie bigline. 
Dear Uncle Mark: We have a smart 
little dog no larger than a good-sized cat. She 
will run rabbits and crows and hunt mice. 
She will bark for her food and come to the 
house when we ring the dinner bell. We have 
been experimenting with some wild silk 
worms. We found the cocoons in the woods. 
The flies cut out in the spring about the time 
the mulberries put out leaves. There were 
two flies, a male and a female. The female 
laid about 500 eggs. She lived two weeks 
without food or water. I think there will be 
good crops made here this year. We have 
had plenty of rain this spring. We have corn 
and cotton up now, April 6. We have some 
pretty flowers. Your Niece, 
Caldwell, Texas. mart herron. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I would like to join 
the Y. H. C. I am a girl 14 years old. Pa has 
taken the Rural over 15 years and likes it 
very much. We have two colts, Pansy and 
Bess. Pansy will be five years old next June; 
Bess will be one year old next May. There is 
a snow-bank in front of our house; it is over 
eight feet deep. The house has got a snow 
bank on nearly every side of it. We have 
lots of fun on the drifts. I have two sisters 
and one brother younger than I am—Arrie, 
Jenny and Warren. In the summer we milk 
21 cows. Pa has got four pair of steers. The 
oldest ones’ names are Honor Bright and 
Major; 2d, Jumbo and Limbo (Swiss); 3d, 
Grover and Thomas; 4th, Hayes and Wheeler. 
One odd steer (Spot). We do not go to school 
now. Warren caught a rat in a steel trap; it 
measured one foot and four inches (with tail). 
What do you think of that? Arrie wants to 
be a Cousin. I hope you will print this, as it 
is my first letter to the Rural. 
Yours truly, mary j. cross. 
Adams, Mass. 
[U. M.—This letter was written some time 
ago, so, of course, those drifts must be about 
gone by this time. That was a big rat and no 
mistaka. I am glad he was caught.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: I have not written to 
you for some time, so I thought I would write 
and tell you how the storm acted here. On 
Sunday it rained and that night it snowed 
and on Monday it blew so that you could 
hardly go out. It drifted the roads so that 
you could not travel with a horse; one place 
it drifted nine feet high. We did not get any 
mail for three days. One of our turkeys was 
under a drift four days, but she was living 
when we found her. The wind blew 10 of our 
apple trees down and a great many trees in the 
woods. It has been so bad that I could not 
go to school. Papa has taken the Rural for 
a number of years and likes it very much, 
Your Nephew, Ralph e. swartz. 
Talbot Co., Md. 
Dear Uncle Mark . I would like to join 
the club. I am 10 years old. Pa has taken 
the Rural for about 15 years. We like it 
very much. I have a little brother; his name 
is Ralph. He is five years old. Our school 
commences two weeks from to-day. We have 
but a little snow here. We have nine head of 
cattle, one calf and three horses. I like to 
read the Cousins’ letters very much. 
Oswego, N. Y. MARY L. OWENS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I am not a Cousin 
yet, for I have never written to you before, 
but I hope to have my name added to the list 
of Cousins when you receive this letter. I am 
a boy, 15 years old, and live on a small farm 
(40 acres), although my father is an officer in 
the navy. The Lena Bennett “blizzard” from 
Schuyler County, N. Y., has impressed me 
more than any letter I have yet seen from 
any of the Cousins. I give as my private 
opinion publicly expressed that Miss Lena 
is exactly right regarding a girl’s duty. 
I would also like to say that while it is very 
well for a man to understand the arts of sewing 
and bed-making and even cooking to some ex¬ 
tent, it is not, in my opinion, his part of the 
family work. I have seen poor working men 
that have almost no time outside their work' 
ing hours, that have had to couple their pants 
to their suspenders with nails on account of 
the laziness of their wives. I have one more 
point to dispute. Do we hire help on the farm 
to be our equals, or to set them on the man¬ 
tel and throw sugar to them? Isay no! We 
hire them to do our work, and as servants I 
do not think that we are obliged to take them 
to our tables or put them in the best bed 
either. edgar uber. 
Falls Church, Va. 
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A Matter Whicli Concerns You. 
The following unsolicited opinions from 
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whom you know and respect, ought to carry 
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