pUsictUatttou.st ^4vcvti;aittg 
E have had a “bushel 
■ftVw of letters’’ lately. The 
names of those who 
I |j p wrote will be found at 
| y | the end of the coin inn, 
of) oP/ 3 !|(j | 0 1 Have patience and I 
t ^1 I "'ll g et them yet. 
*1. Don’t think because 
C) your letters do not ap- 
j/r? Kj A pear at once that 
1 Uncle Mark ever for- 
gets his boys or girls. 
® J 4) He never does that. He 
g L. is only sorry that we 
Qj cannot have more 
space so that all can see their letters “ in 
print.”-- 
Nowhere is another chance forsomeliody 
to get some tine stock. Remember that a 
very small club may win these chickens. r l ry 
hard for it. 
UNCLE Mark: To induce the Cousins to get 
subscribers for the Rural, we will offer a 
pair of our Light Brahma chicks (to lie 
shipped in September), to the Cousin under 
10 years of age, who sends the second largest 
club before June 1, 188(5. The birds will be the 
very best and worth at least #5.1(0. We will 
send catalogues to any T of the Cousins who 
will send us their address, e. h. UPSON & bro. 
Wilmot, Ind. 
telegraph wire is stretched across hill and 
valley from Fort Robinson to the Indian 
Agency. There! we have sccu all the most 
important sights, so we will have a little chat. 
Our claims are on the old stage road from 
Sioux City, Iowa, to Helena. Montana. Custer 
and bis men camped oil the claim also. There 
are 12,000 cattle driven along the old stage 
road every year to the agency for the lazy 
Indians. I don’t see why they do not work as 
well a-s we. I’m sure they are able to. A 
great many people think they will break out 
in the Spring and massacre the whites. So if 
I do not write again nexr. Summer, you may 
imagine me with some of the rest. The first 
house in this town, Chadron, was erected the 
first of July last., and now it bus over 2,000 in¬ 
habitants and is a great business town. The 
land around here is mostly taken up, but some 
is still vacant, Any single lady who is past 
21 can take a homestead, same as the men. 
Dawes Co., Neh. etta shaffnkr’. 
[Indians ought to work. Every person who 
eats ought to earn his food. I think you will 
be safe. I am glad the ladies can take up 
claims. I believe in “woman’s rights” to that 
extent surely.—u. m.] 
always seemed queer to ns that a disease 
which was so common and on which so much 
learning was wasted, hud never before this 
met its match. 
But so it is, and there is no use regretting it. 
It couldn’t be that, svay all the time. The day 
of keeping up a doubtful rough and tumble 
light with asthma is passed. Any one who wants 
to can now grapple with it squarely and with 
full assurance of winning. If it strikes sud¬ 
denly you cau strike back suddenly. If it 
strikes violently you can give blow for blow. 
If it plays the bulldog you can batter him to 
death with your good, stout club. 
Asthma is in the line of diseases which in¬ 
volves the pipes and lungs. It is generated 
and fed by conditions of the system, which, in 
another person, or, under other circumstances, 
in your own, would, breed bronchial and lung 
troubles. Hence, its stubbornness and treach¬ 
ery, and hence also the failure to reach it 
with local remedies, except very temporarily. 
“Such a thing as a cure had not been known 
till the introduction of the Cannabis Sativa 
Remedy, which has been prescribed for thou¬ 
sands of years in the East Indies as a cure for 
consumption. 
That we now have in it a cure is due to the 
fact that as a treatment it reaches below the 
disease aud breaks up the conditions which 
feed it. How l’ar off we have been from any¬ 
thing we could hitherto call a cure is plain 
when wo consider that most of those wh o have 
been cured of their asthma by Canuabis Sa¬ 
tiva have suffered with the disease for a long 
time —some of them as much as twenty 
years. Please uote this eh isely. 
There is an instance right at hand—that of 
Rev. Phillip Axtell, of Prosperity, Pa. His 
old medical friend, Dr. E. H. Cary, met him 
the other day aud thus writes of the inter¬ 
view: “Have kuowu Mr. Axtell to be a suff¬ 
erer from asthma andsub-acutc inhumation of 
the air passages for ten years. He told me 
he was entirely well of his asthma and that 
he had been cured by the Cannabis Sativa 
Remedy alone, haviug takeu no other rnedi- 
ciue. He is one of the most reliable men we 
have.” 
Ten years is a good while to suffer with so 
terrible a disease; aud no doubt he had the 
best, of medical treatment all the time. At 
least such must surely have beeu the case with 
Mrs. Dr. Buffum, of Kilgore, Gregg County, 
Texas, who writes that she had been trying 
remedies for her asthma for twenty-three 
years aud had lost faith entirely. Poor 
woman; no wonder! “But,” she continued; 
“I used your Cannabis Sativa for two years, 
not regularly, aud had but one spell. When 
without it 1 had eight spells iu six mouths. I 
had despaired of ever being cured.” 
Mr. J. L. Kantner, of South Easton, Pa., 
was so grateful for the cure of his wife’s asth¬ 
ma by Cannabis Sativa—she had been afflicted 
with it for tell years and was cured iu six 
days—that he told some of his friends who 
were suffering with it, and they told others, 
aud uow the remedy has such a reputation 
that Mr. Katner wrote us. saying he would 
soou uecil a secretary to help him answer cor¬ 
respondence if it continued to increase. 
Sitting up at night in order to breathe is 
one of the many asthma horrors. Mrs. M. O. 
Ward, of 120 Congress street, Newark, N. J.. 
did this off and on for two years. “Then:” 
she says, “I began to take Cannabis Sativa 
and found immediate relief.” 
Preventive power is a line quality iu a rem¬ 
edy. Rev. W. M. Williams, of Mew Market, 
Va., an asthmatic sufferer, took time by the 
forelock. Writing in July, 18K5, he says: 
“Took two packages of your remedy last full 
and hud no asthma after November.” He 
saved himself much suffering and an immense 
doctor bill. 
What a contrast between the two existences 
of Mr. S. Samuel Monroe of Bassett. Chieksuw 
County, Iowa. He writes: “Before 1 took 
your Canuabis Sativa for asthma I could not 
sleep at night unless I burned saltpetre paper. 
Many a night I have had to sit up all night 
Dear Uncle Mark: I use a figure four 
trap for catching rabbits. Perhaps some of 
the Cousins do not know how to make one. I 
will try aud tell them. I use first, for a box 
a large soap 1 k>x aud then three sticks, one 
upright, a diagonal piece, and the trigger or 
horizontal piece. The first may be made, say 
eight inches long, the upper cud being whittled 
to a thick edge, not pointed. The horizontal 
piece or trigger about ten inches long, and 
square. Have a notch one side about seven 
inches from the end. On the upper face of 
the trigger about six-and-a-balt inches from 
the side, notch iu another notch. The diag¬ 
onal has both ends beveled or brought to a 
wide edge and a notch cut near one end. In 
settingup the figure, hold the perpendicular 
up, fit the trigger to the side, then adjust the 
notch in the diagonal to the perpendicular 
and then insert the other end of the diagonal 
in the notch near the end of the trigger. Now- 
let, the box rest on the end of the diagonal. 
This will make the figure four stand firmly, 
yet ready to fall at, a very slight pull upon the 
trigger to which the bait is fastened. 
* Macedon, Wayne Co. frkd. e. reeve. 
[That ought to catch them I think.—u. M.] 
My Dear Uncle- I am much pleased in 
reading the mauy letters from the Cousins 
out West, especially those who tell you what 
they see every day, whether it be a wild 
bird, or beast, a new flower or fruit, all of 
which have a great interest for lovers of na¬ 
ture whose homes are far from all of these 
things. I have seen the Rocky Mountains, 
Pike’s Peak, Long’s Peak, and Central City; 
buffaloes, antelopes, prairies and prairie dogs, 
but it was ouly once, and that time 10 years 
ago. Here we, on the stormy Atlantic, have 
entirely different surroundings. In an hour 
we can see hundreds of sailing and steam¬ 
ships, from Europe, Asia, Africa or the mul¬ 
titude of islands w hich dot the ocean. From 
these vessels are being landed continually 
fruits from France, Spain aud “ up the 
strait,” as the sailors call those countries ly¬ 
ing along the warm Mediterranean. (Jrauges, 
lemons, figs, dates, prunes, prunelles, al¬ 
monds, French walnuts and chestnuts, Brazil 
nuts. Cocoa nuts, Bananas, pine apples, aud 
hundreds of other articles of food. All of 
these are daily shipped iu every direction by 
the railroads, reaching every village ami ham¬ 
let from the Atlantic to the Pacific, aud from 
the frozen regions of the north to the Gulf of 
Mexico on the southern border. Besides these 
ocean-crossing vessels, every hour are seen 
coming up the bay from Haudy Hook, or 
down through Heugate from Long Island 
Bound and Eastward, myriads of smaller fish¬ 
ing vessels, with their hold* or wells filled 
with cod, blue fish, herrings, or other fish, as 
we have, including those from fresh water, 
nearly 100 kinds to select from iu our mar¬ 
kets. Besides these edibles from the sea,there 
are sometimes brought by those fishing ves¬ 
sels, a small whale, a porpoise, a skate an 
octopus, or whatever else strange may be met 
with. Few of you have seen such vessels, or 
such animals, aud mauy of you perhaps never 
will, aud so, of us here, but few- will ever see 
a real live buffalo, or a Rocky Mountain 
Sheep. Ho let us ouce in a while exchange 
ideas, aud both will get new subjects for 
thought. _ HAWORTH. 
Letters received from Burt Huntington; Jennie 
Hunt; Wesley J. Barber; Zullu Shlminlus; Bertie Hull; 
Gertrude Underhill. "Texas Boy” Nannie Creek; Eva 
Waite; Charles H. Johnson, Etta Gilbert; Howard 
MInter; Nollie Mitchell; Kate and Flossie CUue; 
Frankie Beeder; Alabama Barker; Fannie C. Ben vis; 
Luella J. Coburn; Willie Byrain; Carrie E, Harlan; 
Halite I.. Daniel, Kate Culbertson; Ida Gynn; Sophia 
Grover; Alice Wright; Emily B. Rhodes; Dunn In E. 
Beckham; Anna Li. Ore: Orlando A Rector; Frank 
Williams; Agues S. French; Lillie Shaw; Howard 
Fisher; Freddie Bogart; J. M ShuJl; W. T. Fulle; 
Florence Kirkpatrick; Johnnie B. Tansey; Haul 
Daily; Lulu and Gertie Saul: Alice McCarty; Alletta 
M. Upson, 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: It ought to be one of 
the rules of our club that any boy or girl who 
knows of anything useful, he or she should tell 
what it is, so that all may have the benefit of 
it. Now, I have a little thing which I find 
very useful, and I made it myself. Any boy 
or girl can make one. It is made out of the 
handle of a tooth-brush, and I call it a dibble. 
It is one of the handiest little things I ever 
used for pricking out seedling plants, making 
drills for small and delicate seeds, aud a good 
many other things. I have tried all kinds of 
wood and metal, but there is nothing equal to 
the handle of a tooth-brush for a small dibble. 
All the Cousins will want one when they get 
the Rural Seeds. 
This is the way to make it: get.au old tooth¬ 
brush and saw or file off the haudle at the 
smallest i>art, which is near the brush. Then 
round the end off to a point with a fine file. 
In some handles there is a shoulder where the 
taper begins, and this should be rouudeu down 
with the file, to make it look neat. The small 
end will do for small seedlings and the large 
end for large ones, aud also for cuttings. A 
dibble like this is always clean, and may be 
carried in the jiocket. I usually have one in 
my pocket to give to some little boy or girl 
who loves plants. This dibble is uot only 
good for little boys and girls, but is also worth 
the notice of the big boys aud girls over in the 
Rural Department. 
If any of the Cousins would like to know 
how to use this dibble, 1 shall be glad to tell 
them. Now 1 want some of them to tell me 
something good for me to know. I wonder if 
auy of them live near a big pond, where I 
could go fishiug aud get water lilies. 
cousin horticola. 
Dear Uncle Mark and Rural Cousins: 
Ou the 17th of last October. Papa sold our 
farm in Iowa, and ou the 1 Itb of November, 
we started for this western country. So you 
may judge for yourself whether we were busy 
or not. We chartered a car and brought all 
household goods, farming implements, poultry, 
stock, canned fruit, house plants and nearly 
everything, except the place itself. We laud¬ 
ed here on the morning of the 12th. Papa aud 
brother found Claims to suit them aud have 
made some improvements ou them. We 
(Mamina, sister aud myself) are staying in 
town. Last Sunday we drove out to see the 
claims. They are ii}i miles from this town, 
and 31 from Bordeaux. Will tell you some 
of the things that can be seen from our 
claims. Some of the country is lovely, but 
some of it is great buttes and hills. Now, 
Uncle Mark and Cousins, imagine yourselves 
with me just a few- minutes. First, look 
northwest. There, do you see those black 
clouds! Those are the far-famed Black Hills, 
aud loom up iu the distance like great black 
clouds; they are (50 miles from us, but can be 
seen very plainly with the naked eye. Now 
turn your eyes farther north, and you will 
see the entrance to a great cave: that is 10 
miles from us. Look east there! Do you see 
those two great hills with the narrow passage 
between? See: the walls are cut straight 
down; it looks as if man’s hand had done it, 
but a more wonderful worker than man did 
that. It is called ‘ ‘Sheridan’s Gates,” so named 
because Sheridan and his men passed through 
it at the time of Geu. Custer’s massacre: 
and thought I would die with it. Have not 
had the least sign of asthma since I began to 
take your remedy. Have worked every day 
since.” 
A crisp word from the Pacific coast. Says 
Arthur Bailey, of San Francisco, Cal. “Two 
years ago got three boxes of your Cannabis 
Sativa, which cured me of asthma.” 
A. J. Wilder, of Tidal Wave. Whitely 
County. Ky., fought his asthma for two years 
at an expense of $200, aud then gave it up as 
a bad job. At the pci-suasion of his brother- 
in-law he tried Cannabis Sativa without any 
faith. Writing, he says; “To my surprise the 
trial package gave me more relief than all the 
medicines I had ever taken. Am glad to say 
1 continued its use and feel like a new man.” 
Charles Atkius. of Severance, Kan., ex¬ 
presses a true filial feeling thus: 4 Your reme¬ 
dy, Cannabis Sativa, lias cured my mother of 
asthma.” 
These testimonials are tokens of gratitude. 
And well they may be, for of the diseases 
which flesh is heir to there is none so oppress¬ 
ive and provoking as asthma. Sufferers come 
to dread it worse than death, and especially 
after they find that doctors are of no avail 
and all their own expedientsare no longer 
of auy use. 
There is no further occasion for dread. The 
above evidence of a. cure for asthma ought to 
prove to the satisfaction of every one—or if it 
does not the test imony can be increased inde- 
finately—that the disease has at last met it -.s 
match. 
For full information about the Canuabis 
Sativa Remedy aud its remarkable curative 
properties address W. A. Noyes, 140 Powers 
Block, Rochester, N. Y. 
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