PLANTS AND SCREENS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I take much interest 
in your boys and girls department. I always 
like to read the letters from the Cousins. 1 
don’t kuow as you will admit a few lines into 
this department from an old gardener, but I 
thought perhaps a few suggestions on starting 
early vegetables might interest the Cousins, 
so I send you a few crude drawings of some of 
the contrivances that I use to start things 
early where they are to grow, by preparing 
the ground for the crop and planting the seed 
in the hill and using these screens. You can 
get almost anything a month earlier than in 
the open ground; the boys can construct them 
without much cost. A few thin pieces of 
boards, or some sticks such jus they can cut in 
the woods, will do to make the frames for 
them. They may be covered with mosquito 
netting, or old calico will answer. 1 kuow 
by experience that these screens will forward 
plants a month or more. I think many of 
the Cousins will be interested in making the 
screens and thus starting their plants earlier. 
To make the ojjen screens all that is required 
are four straight sticks with holes in the end 
to tie them together at the top. Cover them 
w ith netting. They will keep all bugs away 
from the vines, and that is what we need to 
do. AN OLD GARDENER. 
East Bridgewater, Mass. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Let tore have hcen received from George C. Brower; 
Lydia M- Bell; Clayton W. Wright; Clarence, John and 
Willie Coop; George H. Mack; Mary C. Cameron; Ethel 
Drummond; Eva Kirkham: Dora M. Barnard; Guy C. 
Barnard: AdaYongcr; Lizzie and Rosa Uillmau; Olive 
McCarty; Gertrude Van Buskirk; Elsie Snielscr; Casper 
Mikelson; Mattie Knapp. 
PteffUanjeottjJ 
A DECISIVE VICTORY. 
Two things frequently happen with a cold. 
First, entire neglect; and second, what is 
worse, trifling with it by using weak and vain 
remedies. 
The same thing happens with a cough, 
which may lie only the voice of a bad cold or 
solemn warning of the approaches of consump¬ 
tion. It is often neglected entirely or played 
with by foolish syrups and decoctions till it 
takes a fatal bold of the lungs. 
Of catarrhs one need hardly speak. Every¬ 
body knows how they eat up the mucus linings 
of the nose and throat, and finally go down to 
the pipes and lungs, playing havoc as they go 
and undermining the system by inches. 
So does everybody know how stubborn 
catarrhs are. Before the introduction of 
Cannabis Sativa, the East India Consumption 
Cure, such a thing as a cure for catarrh, if at 
all chronic, was not know r u. Since the intro¬ 
duction of that wonderful remedy for the en¬ 
tire class of diseases which begin with a cold 
and cough and end with true pulmonary con¬ 
sumption, it can ba confidently said that a 
cure for catarrh exists. 
Don't believe this because we say so. Think 
for yourselves one moment and see if it must 
not lie so. Nothing in the world is better 
established than that Cannabis Sativa is 
master of consumption. It was the one secret 
specific of the mysterious and learned medical 
men of the East for thousands of years. It 
has been tried here since its introduction in 
hundreds of the most hopeless cases, and, as 
numerous certificates show, has made wonder¬ 
ful cures. 
The reason is that it reaches and controls 
the consumptive conditions of the system. It 
restores functions of the vital organs, repro¬ 
duces lost stamina, lifts the system above the 
depression of disease aud gives nature a 
ebauee to win. 
Now what is clearer than that if it conquers 
and cures the greater disease it will be a aery 
kiny among the lesser diseases which are but 
the seeds and beginnings of consumption? 
What will reach aud remove an effect will 
surely conquer a cause, or one of many causes. 
It is far easier to whip the sepevate regiments 
of an army than to overcome them when they 
are combined. 
This very point came up the other day in a 
conversation with Mrs. Vaimaman, of D40 
Koulh Front street, Philadelphia. Speaking 
of colds, against which she had to guard her¬ 
self carefully, she said: “I always keep the 
Cannabis Sativa remedy in the house and 1 
never found anything to take right hold of a 
cold like it does. It has never failed to break 
up my worst colds by the second day.” 
This is just what is needed in a cold; some- 
Route 
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50,000 
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Now ready for sale. Every farmer and every 
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Send at once for circular and price list to 
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145 Broadway, N. V. City. 
DOLLARS each for New and 
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DYSPEPSIA its Nature, Caases. Prevention, and 
Cure By JOHN H. McALVIN, Lowell, Mass. 14 
years Tax Collector. Sent free to any address. 
TARER ORGAN. 
Latest style; fine tone; made of best material, in the 
most substantia] manner. Fully warranted. Send for 
Catalogue. Agents wanted. 
TABER ORGAN OO., Worcester, .Mass. 
SAMPLE. TREATMENT 
-cat knur faith (hat we can cure you. dear sutferer. that we 
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SI r til iutroduee 
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. GORDON'S* KING 
a sample free to any one 
Agents LA noted. Ad 
le Proprietor, Toledo. O. 
©.state. 
NORTHWESTERN LAND AGENCY, 
ST, CLOUD, MINIS, 
GOLD MEDAL, PABIS, 1878. 
FOR SALE. 
Imoroved grain, stock and dairy farms; unimproved 
B. pine and hard wood timber; granite quarries. 
Location. soil and water unexcelled. 1 st mortgage 
loans, town, city and school bonds negot iated. Uescrip- 
r Jve 11st s free on applieatton. Correspondence solicited. 
BRLCIi A RT. G 1 LL1S Ar VINCENT. 
FOR SALE. 
FARM OF ->s;{ ACRES IN HARFORD CO., MD. 
Large stone House; Switzer Barn, with Shedding 
for 40 Cattle adjoining, Granaries; Carriage ^moke 
Chicken and Ice Houses. A celebrated W beat and 
Grass 1 arm. Immediate possession lf>}vslred. 
Address \\ M. H INCH LSI LB, 
V. o. BOX 9R5, 1UI.TIM011E, MD. 
The undersigned offers fm sale one of the best dairy- 
farms In the State of Wisconsin consisting of 180 acres 
of Natural Meadow 2.MI acres of plow land ami3T0acres 
ot Pasture and Woodland. The East 1 'fteatoulcK ltlver 
runs through said land. There are two dwelling 
houses, a cheese factory, bains, sheds, two elsterns 
and n\ e living springs on the place. Said farm is sit¬ 
uated jn the Town of Moscow, Iowa County, State of 
Wisconsin. Will sell all nr oilic-half on easy terms. 
Correspond with MICHAEL McKENNA. 
Warranted absolutely pure 
Cocoa , from which the excess of 
Oil has been removed. It has t L ~ee 
times the strength of Cocoa mixed 
with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, 
and is therefore far more economi¬ 
cal, costing less than one cent a 
cup. It is delicious, nourishing, 
strengthening, easily digested, and 
.admirably adapted for invalids as 
well as for persons in health. 
Sold by (irocers everywhere. 
f. BAKER & CO., Dorctoter, Mass, 
ONE MILE SIGNAL WHISTLE 
Til. loudest !-u<! most piercingly shrill 
whistle of in tile Hindu- l'»n he Uvuru up 
toone mile. Tin- exact »!«.• ot a ,/ 
50 calibre V. ■v Government |{r - I f 
!tllie Cartridge. Made of bur- lit X IU 
ni.ltrd bru«n "illi nickel ✓ \\ r__.II 
bullet- Iu» nlunblo M » jW X , NWgX 
signal for team ntcru, - ’ 
farmers, .portsmen 
and .-ill who wish to 
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VIRGINIA LAND AGENCY. 
Cheap Farms. Splendid Climate. Short MUd Winters 
Good Markets. Descriptive Lund List Free. 
GRIFFIN & JERVIS. P etersburg, N n. 
MARYLAND FA RMS.-Book aud Map free, 
by};. E. SHANAHAN, Attorney. Easton, Aid. 
. V. \ So ai. 
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j&rr ucivoliv that 
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Von thouiii have 
tt. To Iutroduee our 
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S-' terenting eat ulogllt* of 
guu.. lii'u-a, novel tins nnd 
useful article*. will scud thl» 
whi.-tl*- ai.il rufAl.igna by mail, poet* 
■ paid, for Kill !£•*, cent* In 'tump- Ml- 
-dreraRENNlE .V ALLSON Mffi. 
725 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, Pcnna. 
Cheap and Rich Lands. Healthy and Mild Cllma 
Kish and Oysters In great abundance.. 
E. LINDSEY & CO., Norfolk. Va 
rinua Hotels, Sxtorcs. Mills. Business Chances. Coun 
r llimu try Seats or Lands for Sale nr Knvhange. In¬ 
close stamp for Lists. W. S. HntchUin, Real Es 
talc and Trailers’ Exchange, Binghamton, N. \ . 
Q TTnTrTTTlFARMS&MILLS 
»’ L L 111 For lisle A Exchange. 
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'ichuiond.-at a. 
Sativa Remedy. It Is always a terrible threat 
on the lungs which it may reach any time. 
R.Hall. of Sc. Paul.. Minu,, saved his. He 
writes: ’’Hadsuffered a lone time with catarrh 
aud throat difficulty—it had gotten down that 
tar, mind you. and would soon have reached 
the lungs—and began to take your Cannabis 
Sativa. Used four packages, following direct¬ 
ions closely. It is due to you to say that my 
catarrh is entirely cured , my throat much 
better and my general health greatly 
improved.” 
After curing himself of catarrh Mr. P. F. 
Cuttino, of Cuttino & Co., dry goods mer¬ 
chants, Newman, Ga., writes that he has reo- 
eommeuded Cannabis Sativa to several others 
aud that it is his belief that it is the only rem¬ 
edy which will pasilirely cure catarrh. 
V. T. McChesney, Esq., of Kearly & McChes- 
ney, attorneys at Canton, Texas., writes: “I 
have been using your Cannabis Sativa Reme¬ 
dy for two months. When I began l only 
weighed 125 pounds aud was very feeble. I 
now weigh 148 pounds aud am nearly as strong 
as ever. The remedy has wrought a wonderful 
change in me. My malady was what the 
doctors called nasal and bronchial catarrh. I 
am still rapidly improving and gaining in 
weight, at the rate of two pounds a week.” 
Catarrh won’t stop of itself, it will make 
a wreck of the system. It will get to be con¬ 
sumption—slow consumption, AU this is true 
if you don’t stop it. As to how far it will go 
let Mrs. A. C. Sewell, of Cloud County, Kan., 
tell. She writes: “You have been the means 
under God of rescuing me from the grave. 1 
had given up hope and only waited death from 
nearly everything in the form of disease. 
The catarrh in my head w as so bad that there 
was a continous gathering and breaking for 
four years. I had pains in my left side, night- 
sweats, palpitation, sinking spells, swelling of 
the limbs: in fact I was a wreck. Brother 
Perry brought me a double package of your 
Cannabis Sativa remedy—a distance of fifteen 
miles. I thought it ol' n<> use, for I supposed i 
was beyond medical aid. But I was prevailed 
U] toil to take it, and now I can say 1 am a well 
woman. Can do all my household work, for 
HUMPHREYS’ 
Homeopathic Veterinary 
l Specifics for 
\ HORSES, 
K. B. ( BAFFIN <& CO.. 
Virginia FaTuis.-ViWi Climate. ClieuD Homes. 
Send tor Circular. A. O. BLISS, Cenlrult ft,V(t- 
VIRBINIA HOMES. SUT STS 
Grass Forms and other properties In rlv noted Pled- 
mont Region, 2ia hours h.v rail to W oaUlngiqu. I art Jen 
wauling Virginia Horses will also communicate with 
II, \V. llilleury, W'akkxnton, Fauquier Co., Ya. 
CATTLE, SHEEP 
dogs * H0GS ’ P0ULTRY- 
w Used by U. S. Governm’t. 
Chart on Roilers, 
WTttfRj r Mn ,i Boole Sent Free. 
Humphreys’ Med. Co., 103 Fulton St., N. V. 
VIRGINIA LANDS. 
The Farm offered, contains WW Acres aud Is consid¬ 
ered one of the Attest stock farms In Eastern Virginia. 
It rents for a moneyed reutalof from $400 toilSJUper 
year and the taxes. Vrtee87 iM). For particulars. Ad¬ 
dress (!, T. REEK ES, Boydlou, \ ft. 
THE LINE SELECTED BY THE U. S. GOV'T 
TO CARRY THE FAST MAIL. 
Improved E I u s t i o 
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744 Broadway. N. Y, 
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It is the only line with Its own track Irom 
CHICAGO TO DENVER, 
Either by wsy of Omaha, Pacific «unc., St. Joseph, 
Atchison or Kansas City. 
It connects In Union Depots with through trains from 
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and all Eastern points. It Is the principal line to 
8AM FRAMCI8C0, PORTLAND A. CITY OF MEXICO 
It traverses all of the six great States of ILLINOIS, 
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equipped through trains over Its own tracks between 
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Its equipment is complete and first class In every 
particular, and at all important points Interlocking 
Switches and Signals are used, thus Insuring com¬ 
fort and safety. 
For Tickets, Rates. General Information, etc., 
regarding the Burlington Route, call on any Ticket 
Agent in the United States or Canada, or address 
T. J. POTTER 1st V.P. & Gen. Mqr., Chicago. 
HENRY B. STONE, Asst. Gen. Mqr., Chicago. 
PERCEVAL LOWELL, Gen. Pass. Aot., Chioajo.^ 
to sell our Rubber Printing Stamps. Sant 
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fl(» Fancy Pictures aud 2d 
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