Colorado Springs, we journeyed on to Pueblo, 
where we stopped 20 minutes for dinner. 
Leaving Pueblo, we soon reached and 
passed by Canon City and its beautiful apple 
orchards, entering the grand Canon of the 
Arkansas, and it truly was the Grand Canon. 
On both sides solid masses and walls of rocks 
reaching up to thousands of feet and on oue 
side the water, rushing, foaming ami leaping 
madly on, fouud its way to the Mississippi 
and thence to the Gulf of Mexico. 
Following the beautiful valley of the Ar¬ 
kansas, we reach Salida the end of the first 
and the beginning of the second division of 
the R. R. Here we change conductors, fire¬ 
men, etc. Putting on another engine we 
begin the ascent of Marshal Pass, and by 
constant windings and curves past some of 
the most beautiful scenery, we stand on the 
top of Marshal Pass, 11,000 feet above the 
sea. The run down the western slope is soon 
made, and whizzing down some of the most 
beautiful scenery, we reach Sargence where a 
bountiful supper is awaiting us. Here we 
enter the Tomiclii valley and soon reach Gun¬ 
nison City and the Black Canon of the Gun¬ 
nison, wliicb is grander and more rugged thau 
the Grand Canou of the Arkansas, even. Pass¬ 
ing through it we reach Grand Junction. 
Here we again change engines, as this is 
the end of the second section. Soon we reach 
Fraita the end of my journey, and lying 
in the Grand Valley, which is especially 
adapted to fruit raising. In thus valley we 
raise peanuts and ehufas and, iu fact, it is 
the only valley in which peaches aud apricots 
are irrown successfully. The railroad still 
PiscrUaneouss gUmtisinti 
Catarrh Cured 
A 2f>cr-nt package of BLISS’S WILD GARDEN FLOW 
R SEED and :ny UOW UW page Catalogue amlAma 
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purifies the blood and tones up the whole system. 
*< i suffered with catarrh 15 years. 1 took Hood's 
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•with catarrh, and*my general health is much 
better.” I. W. Linuts, Chicago, 1IL 
•‘I suffered with catarrh six or eight years; 
tried luanv wonderful cures, inhalers, etc., speiid- 
iug nearlv oue hundred dollars without benefit. 
X tried Hood's Sarsaparilla and was greatly un¬ 
proved." M. A. Abbey, Worcester, Muss. 
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lor, Cromwell, (Jt. 
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Send stamp for sample. 
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DEN, JEFFERSON. A M BE R^ OF KEN. and 
other varieties. Also the C' A VA \\ BA. WEED 
LINUP’HARY." a Red Grape originated in 
Oswego Co., N. Y. Eiirly ns Coucord and as heavy bearer. 
Fruit lias been keprnntll May. This GrnPC >* new, 
lias not been on the market before. I have just 
bough r the ent ire stock of the originator, and shall have 
the entire control for some years of same. Prices of vmes 
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tVERETT BROWN, S'M.'ci "'l I: 
KNOW THYSELF. 
I E sure that the cattle have 
plenty of salt this Winter. 
\ Animals need salt aud they 
uever can do well without 
it. It is absolutely necessary 
for them. Sometimes men 
are obliged to go without 
; salt, for a long time. They 
say it causes them the most 
awful suffering. In some 
countries prisoners are puu- 
Ltjhed by beiug deprived of 
f salt for a long period. All of 
Y \jtheir food is cooked without 
C sa it. For a time they stand 
it pretty well, but at last 
they begin to suffer. During the war. people 
at the South tried all sorts of plans to make 
salt. People have told me how they used to 
dig up the earth at the bottom of the smoke¬ 
houses and boil it to get at the salt that bad 
soaked into it. In this way they got along. 
Ail you boys, whose duty it is to salt the cattle, 
must remember that it will not do to slight 
them. Take time for the work and doit well. 
In a great many districts there is a high 
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chance for coasting. The boys are generally 
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sometimes seem to forget what they go to 
school for. I have seen boys half way up the 
hill when they heard the school bell ring. 
What do you think they did* Stop where 
they were aud slide back to the school-house, 
or ruu on to the top of the hill and thus get 
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8. K. HOCiEKSA KON, *T, HOLLY, N. J. 
Dear Uncle Mark; 1 live in the city of 
Louisville, but I spend vacation at Grandpa’s 
in the country. He gave me some ground and 
I raised some celery, potatoes, tomatoes and 
a watermelon which weighed 42 pounds. My 
I wish to join the club. 
huger piece of 
‘ ’ j. I will have to go out 
Friday, after school, to get the 
ly vegetables. I like the 
A cool soil is what oats delight in; and this grain 
may be put iu on com stubble without JB>wh}K hy 
using the ’ACME’ Pulverizing Harrow, Clod Crusher & 
Levider. Its use will enable the farmer to sow oats 
from ten duvs to two weeks earlier than If he waits 
until the soil Is dry enough to plow, and ten days saved 
may easily double the crop of oats or spring wheat. 
See advertisement on page 1U0. 
Peterkln'a Cotton Seed per bn*. $1.511: 3 II,s by mail 
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Rattlesnake. Kolb, Gem. and Pride Of Ga. Water¬ 
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Circular. MARK W. JOHNSON & CO.. Atlanta,Ga 
unde jjlauted it, 
Grandpa is going to give me a 
ground next Spring, 
sometimes on J 
ground ready for ear _ 
country better than the city, and I want, to be 
a. farmer when I am a man. I will lie ten 
years old next month. harry b. stilz. 
Louisville, Ky. 
[That’s right. I am glad you want to be a 
farmer. I hope you will make a good one.— 
UNCLE MARK.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: I want to join your 
Club. I am a little girl seven years old. My 
brother and sister read the letters to me. I 
want them to join but they do not, so to-night 
while they are gone I have Dceu telling my 
mother wlmt to write for me as I can only 
write a few words; have never been to school, 
Thought I’d tell you we live on Hardscrablo 
farm near Lawrence, Ivan., have two horses, 
one colt, 30 head of cattle, some hogs aud pigs, 
a few turkeys, about 150 chickens, several cats, 
some of. them great pets. My cousin and 
brother take care of the stock. My mother 
ON 30 DAYS’ TRIAL 
v lVrnrj=ri7*r this new 
ELASTIC TRUSS 
WRITES: 
My gardener now refuses 
to plant 
Has a Pad dilterent, from all 
others. Is cun shape, with Self- 
adjusting Bali Hi cetitcr.odapts 
itself to all positions of^ tho 
body while, the bal ui the cup 
presses back the intes¬ 
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jr. with light pressure UioHer- 
and night, ami a radical euro 
de anil cheap. Boat, by mail Cir- 
iSTOS THU89 CO., Chicago, m. 
SENSIBLE 
TRUSS 
from any other house 
PRICE & KNICKERBOCKER 
ALBANY, N. Y._ 
600 ACRES. 13 CREENHODSES. 
TREESsPLANTS 
We oil ci for Uin Spring Trade a large ffliddineistock of 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Uncle Mark; I should like to be counted 
in among the Cousins of the Club so I will 
write you a letter and tell you who I am and 
what i am doing. I am 15 years of age and 
go to the Denver University. I am well 
pleased with the school. The first term has 
just closed and I have come home to spend the 
holidays. 1 hail to ride 436 miles to get 
where ray father lives on a fruit farm. 
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