using five packages he is stronger than ever 
before. In this place his recovery is regard¬ 
ed as a miracle.” 
Not only that, but it cures are real and per¬ 
manent. There was Robert A. Hamilton, a 
lumberman, living near Peterboro, Out. He 
contracted cold in the pineries and got as far 
as Peter bo 1 - 0 . where he went to bed with in¬ 
flamed and abscessed lungs and lingered for 
seven months under the care of four physic- 
pins, who at last gave him up to die. He was 
taken on his bed to his home, a distance of 15 
miles, and there had the attention of three 
physicians, who also gave him up. The ab¬ 
scessed lung discharged fearfully. He made 
his will and waited for death. Contrary to 
all advice lie resolved to try the Cannabis Ba- 
tiva Remedy as a last resort. He writes: 
“Began to use it in February, 187b. By May, 
after using three or four packages, 1 was 
able to get out ol' bed alone for the first time 
in three yearn and three months. In seven 
mouths after leaving iuy lied I was smart, 
healthy anil without pain, ache or any symp¬ 
toms of disease, Have since beeu able to 
make a good living. Last Fall I cradled and 
drew in grain.” For the last seven years Mr. 
Hamilton has not known a sick-day. The 
cure was permanent. He bad previously 
siM'iit SI.400 for treatment. The Cannabis 
brother’s name is James O. Gill ice and he is 
six years old. We live ten miles from 
Clay Center (a town of 5,000 inhabitants). 
Our Papa has a farm of 160 acres, and three 
mules. Their names are Jin, Kit. and Rip. 
We have one hoi’se, his name is Nupoleon. 
We have lots of chickens, and we are going 
to raise some mare next Spring. Our Papa 
gave us some ground to plant last Spring and 
we planted some peanuts, but it was so dry 
that we did not get mauy. We had no rain 
from the 20th of May till the 20th ol' July 
aud then from the first of August till nearly 
the last of September but very little, though 
they had plenty of rain about ten miles from 
here. We ha ve been having a big snowstorm, 
the roads are all blocked up, but it is nice 
weather now. Yours truly, 
Clay Center, Kansas, gillice bros. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I am a girl of 11 
years old, so I would like to be mustered 
in with the rest of the Cousins, We went 
to school last Summer, and we expect to 
go this Summer. George, my oldest brother, 
killed two deer and two turkeys. During 
that cold spoil we had it four degrees below 
zero, but uow we have nice weather. Most 
all the land here is prairie. I can make hair- 
tiowers, I tried to make feather-flowers, but 
1 can’t yet, but as I am young yet, 1 guess I 
can learn. If you ever come in this part of 
the eouutry, you must come here and see what 
nice biscuit I can make. I do very near all the 
cooking and waskiug. 1 have one quilt 
pieced and am piecing another one. I do all 
the milking. We raised a good many peanuts 
last year. We are going to plant a good many 
this year. When we first came down here the 
wolves would howl. We haven’t heard any 
of them for a long time. The country is set 
ling up very fast. We live seven miles from 
the railroad. Pa has a good many flowers in 
his green-house. I had a few flowers last year 
but the chickens scratched them all up before 
any of them bloomed. 
Stuttgart, Ark. mary Elizabeth pracop. 
[What a little worker you are' I am so 
fond of good biscuits that. 1 would williugly 
travel quite a distance to get some. I am glad 
you never invited the wolves in to supper. I 
don’t like such visitors.—u. M,] 
Letters received during the week from T. W.—M. 
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—M. G. K.—D. D.—F. D.-K. R.-R. B.-M. S. 
SHORT time ago 1 saw a cat 
r - that would jump through a 
hoop, play leap frog and per¬ 
form a number of fuuny 
tricks. I think some of the 
Cousins will find lots of pleas¬ 
ure m training a cat. They 
will be proud enough to ex¬ 
hibit it. So I asked the Cousin who owns this 
trained cat to tell us how he went to work to 
teach it. I have no doubt we shall have 
hundreds of oats jumping about and per¬ 
forming all sorts of tricks before the Sum¬ 
mer is over. 
CAT TRAINING. 
The cat should be in good condition, well, 
sound of limb aud not too tat; a cat that is 
too fat will not be able to jump. You want 
to teach her to know your voice; and to come 
at your call. Cruelty should never be used 
iu training. Kindness alone will work with 
an animal. Before proceeding further I will 
describe my cat. 
“Tom” is his name, he is exactly 18 inches 
high. 38 l . a inches from tip of his nose to tip 
of his tail, anil weighs 13'4 pounds. At times 
when he is not iu condition he weighs on an 
average 14 pounds, and somet imes 14 )4 pounds. 
He can play leap-frog with anybody, play 
dead, will lie on his back, and one time be 
went to sleep ou bis back for 20 minutes. He 
can also jump through a hoop, and over your 
arm, will kiss you by a lap or two with his 
tongue on your face; but he is very partial 
with his kissing, as he bestows that favor only 
on the members of the family and a few of 
his most intimate cat friends. Cousins! will 
you believe it, Uncle Mark anil Tom played 
leap-frog together. 
To begin with, teach the cat at meal times. 
Place the meat and milk (fried liver aud warm 
milk is the best food for a cat in training, on no 
account give auy raw meat) on the flour in the 
usual place whore the cat eats and forbid bis 
touching it. If he goes to touch it hiss at him, 
aud if he persists in touching it push him away, 
but do not strike or frighten him. This is 
enough training for beginning. Then after 
he has learned not to touch the food until you 
give permission, you can begin with some 
simple trick, sueh as jumping over your hand 
or a stick a few inches above the ground, 
But I must close now, and I will send some 
more facts some other time. 
WILLARD SPRAGUE. 
Mrs. M. McDowel, writing from Delvalle, 
Texas, says; “Had consumption for two years. 
Have taken Cannabis Sativa for some time 
and am now well. It is a blessing to the suf¬ 
fering.” 
Mrs. M. E. Collins, writes from Caldwell, 
Sumner County, Kan.; “Had enlarged liver; 
terrible cough; hemorrhage of lungs: paiu iu 
side, aud constipation. Doctors said I must 
go to California in order to live. Heard of 
Cannabis Sativa through Rev. Mr. Morrin. 
Began to treat myself with it. Am now free 
from cough and all distressing symptoms. 
Walk half a mile to clunvh and feel as well 
as I ever did.” 
D. O. Folsom, of Almout, Mich., was lifted 
from a consumptive’s death-bed by Cannabis 
Sativa, and writes thankfully to say that “he 
is now in good health, weighs ISO pounds, and 
considers the Cannabis Sativa Remedy super¬ 
ior to all other consumption cures.” 
The Cannabis Sativa Remedy does its work 
quietly and naturally. There is nothing start¬ 
ling or miraculous about its cures; yet some 
of them are so remarkable, so unexpected, so 
contrary to the despondent opinions of patients 
and their doctors, that they seem almost iu 
the nature of miracles. Thus, Charles F. 
Lottinville, postmaster and druggist, of Pap- 
ineau. Ill., a man who knows all about medi¬ 
cines, and who hail excellent opportunity to 
judge of his brother’s case, writes; “My broth¬ 
er had beeu under the treatment of four differ¬ 
ent physicians, all of whom had given him up. 
His legs, arms and hands were swollen and 
paralyzed. He coughed and raised continually 
could not rest a minute in lied and hail not bad 
a wink of sound sleep in six months. His 
mental condition was as bad as his physical, 
for a wife and large family depended on him 
for support. He made his will and arranged 
his affairs in anticipation of speedy death. 
Your Caunabis Sativa Remedy was brought 
to bis notice. As a last resort, aud like a 
drowning man catching at a straw, he let me 
order a package. It now seems as if a mir¬ 
acle had been wrought in his furor, and hu¬ 
manly speaking it was one. He is now up 
and doing work about the house and barn. 
He has recovered his former weight aud looks 
better than he has for the past three years. 
Since his cure l have ordered the Remedy for 
many parsons, with good results.” 
Notice, if you please, the high character of 
all those who testify to the merits of the Can¬ 
nabis Sativa Remedy. They are people who 
understand their cases uud are careful of 
what they say. Druggists ami doctors speak 
as positively as anybody else. 
Consumption takes on a more decided form, 
and is harder to handle iu the higher latitu¬ 
des where the climate is severe. Yet, even 
there the Cannabis Sativa Remedy controls 
and cures it as easily as iu Southern climes. 
Mi-s. J. C. Callard, of 58 Oxford Street, To¬ 
ronto, writes : "Six months ago my throat 
and lungs were so bad I could not speak above 
a whisper and my limbs were swollen. 1 used 
the Cannabis Sativa Remedy, but did not need 
to use the last package you sent me. I now 
feel perfectly well uud am a wonder to my¬ 
self. I talk aud sing as before, and pray that 
God may bless you, for you restored me to 
health.” 
John Dier, Jr., of Westport., Ont., writes: 
“My son was given up by throe doctors. He 
was reduced from 150 to 124 pounds. I spent 
hundreds of dollars for doctors before I got 
your receipt. I could see a change in three 
days after beginning your Remedy. After 
permanent, he wrote: “Hemorrhages all gone 
and lungs sotiud. Can do ns much hard work 
as any man in my neighborhood. Weigh 168 
pounds—as much as 1 ever did. Hail spent 
|300 for medical aid. Twenty dollars’ worth 
of your remedy made me a souuil man. Mr. 
Luther writes again iu 1885 to say that he has 
not. had a day’s sickness since his cure in 1882. 
These are only a few of many similar testi¬ 
monials to the curative properties of Cannabis 
Sativa, the great East India Consumption 
Cure. And yet, a few years ago it was almost 
unknown in this country Its use was lieguu 
in the narrow circle of a regular physician’s 
practice, and thus far its introduction to the 
public has beeu mainly through those who 
have bean cured themselves and voluntarily 
recommended it to others. 
I uow propose to give wider publicity to its 
virtues, since they have been so fully proved, 
and to this end have prepared a pamphlet 
whose contents are of special interest to all 
sufferers from consumption, cough, catarrh, 
asthma add kidney diseases. It will be mailed 
tree on application. Address W. A. Noyes, 
146 Powers Block, Rochester, N. Y. 
CONSUMPTIVES NEED NEVER "DE¬ 
SPAIR. 
There Is a Cure at Hauil. 
Pretty bold words! Yet warranted by 
facts. You uaturally ask, “What is this 
cure?” The answer is Cannabis Sativa, the 
groat East India Consumption Cure. 
“Aud, pray, what is that?” you ask. There 
are two ways of telling you. One is by using 
great big scientific words, which not one in a 
thousand can understand. The other is by 
plain, straightforward speech, which no one 
can mistake. Our judgment is that the latter 
will be best. 
Cannabis Sativa is not a human invention. 
God made it. When nature afflicts she seems 
cruel. But she is really kiud, because she 
gives a remedy for every ill. The great thing 
is to get at it. Now, we have but lately got¬ 
ten at Cannabis Sativa. It isn’t a bit now. 
It came from the East Indies—the cradle of 
the human race. It has been used there for 
thousands of years. 
We can do better with it than those old- 
world folks. We can extract, compound and 
preserve it better. We can prepare it by a 
formula of our own so that it will surely reach 
the seat of consumption and all those diseases 
for which it is a specific. We give it directive 
force aud energy in the system— make it a 
remedy. That is our secret, and in this re¬ 
spect only it is new. 
“Why and Uow does it cure consumption?” 
A grave question. Consumption is not. a dis¬ 
ease iu itself. It is only a result of other dis¬ 
eases. Giveu, loss of appetite, stomach fail¬ 
ure, liver congestion, constipated bowels, 
diarrhu-a, weakness, nightsweats, nervous 
prostration, chills and fever—what have you 
got ? Nothing but u set of diseases which 
breed consumption. They are sure forerun¬ 
ners of it—symptoms as the doctors say. The 
cough isn’t consumption. It only tells you 
that part or all of the other diseases are be¬ 
coming localized iu the lungs. 
The specific virtue of Cannabis Butiva is 
just here. It is the natural corrective of 
these very diseases or conditions which lead 
to aud foster consumption. It cures the dread 
disease by curing its causes. And this is the 
treatment of modern science. Doctors—we 
mean the good ones—have all come to this. 
Under treatment for consumption with 
Cannabis Sativa the provoking disease begins 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS 
Dear Uncle Mark: I forgot about the 
Club till I saw one of the Rurals yesterday. 
I have not been on the farm in over a year, so 
I have had no chance to read the Rurals. I 
have been in the store all this while. I am 
getting so I like it better than I ever did be¬ 
fore. I go to school and attend to the store 
morning, noon and night. We are having 
quite a large school this Whiter: we have a 
good teacher anil about 35 scholars. We have 
a veiy good garden in the Spring. We 
planted potatoes, corn, beets, cabbage, radish¬ 
es and peas. We had all the corn we wanted 
to eat, as we planted an early and a late kiud. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. harry k. lewis. 
[We need some good merchants in the club. 
I hope you will surely make a good one. 
—u. M.] _ 
Dear Uncle Mark: We all enjoy the Ru¬ 
ral seeds very much. The flowers were 
lovely. The poppies were very nice. They 
were of different colors—pink, white, light 
red and dark rod; also some were almost black, 
others were mixed purple and white. We 
have four very nice Catalpa trees raised from 
Rural seeds. This is the sixth year Papa has 
taken the Rural. P;i|>a says the Rural corn 
is too late for our climate. We have two 
cows, a calf, a horse aud four pigs. Papa says 
this year 1 cau raise some pop-corn aud sell it 
and liave the money for my own use. The 
snow is very deep. We have been having 
very cold weather. WUenever wo have terri¬ 
ble storms here we always hoar of worse 
storms in other parts of the country. My 
uncle, who lias lived here 18 years, says there 
has uot been auy signs of a cyclone, i go 
half-a-mile to school, Wo live on the east 
coast of Lake Michigan, and about 80 wiles 
from Milwaukee. This city is improving very 
fast. There are a number of saw mills and 
shingle mills. Bait was discovered last Sum¬ 
mer at. the depth of about 2,000 feet. One 
well is finished und barreling the salt at the 
rate of 350 barrels per day. There are three 
others iu different stages of progression. 
Hoping that Uncle Mark will be pleased with 
my letter, I will close. 
Your niece, emma f. thorn. 
Luddington, Michigan, 
Dear Uncle Mark: My name is Francis 
E. Gillice and I am eight yeare old, and my 
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