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THE RURAl KEW-YORKER. 
for t\jt Doung. 
ATTENTION! 
SHALL send the Cousins some- 
# thing this year that will surely 
please them. It is a package 
of sweet peas. These will make 
the most beautiful flowers im¬ 
aginable. They will retain 
their freshness all through the 
Summer. These flowers are 
sure to be very popular and we 
shall have hard work to keep 
our friends supplied with seed after one sea¬ 
son’s exhibition. The viues are hardy and 
strong and make a heavy growth. For cut flow¬ 
ers they cannot be surpassed. Plant them early 
—as soon as frost is out of the grouud—in drills 
two feet apart. Put the seeds about four 
inches apart. Tie up strings for them to climb 
on, and see if Uncle Mark is uot right in 
saying that they make the most beautiful 
flowers. _ 
THE SONG OF GRASS. 
I WORK while other workers sleep 
The rights of none molesting. 
By night and day I slowly creep 
And never think of resting. 
Beneath the frost and snow I hide. 
Far down tn Earth’s warm cover. 
I hear the wlntrv tyrant ride. 
The frost chained country over. 
And yet 1 smile, for well I know 
The summer suu is coming, 
To tame the cruel cold aud snow 
And tune the wild wind’s humming. 
I creep from out the ground and grace 
The rough scarred face of Nature, 
With gentle, loving touch I trace 
New life on each dead feature. 
I creep and creep, and work unseen, 
I feed the hungry cattle, 
X cover with a wave of green 
The ugly marks of battle. 
I shine and sparkle in the sun, 
I smile at every fetter. 
I see the seasons past me run, 
I see the world grow better. 
And so I creep and creep along. 
I strive to do my duly, 
I make my life a merry song 
I clothe the land with beauty. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS 
Dear Uncle Mark: I went to Pittsburg 
on a visit and saw the big-footed girl. Her 
foot was 19 inches long. That beats the 
stories we hear about the Chicago girls. I 
planted a peck of White Elephant Potatoes 
aud got five bushels. We have stored about 
30 tons of ice, so we shall be able to make lots 
of ice cream next Summer. I hope you will 
come aud help us eat it. I wish some of the 
Cousins would write. G. F. mengel. 
Freedom, Pa. 
[I like ice cream. It is no disgrace for one 
to have large feet or hands. It is more dis¬ 
graceful to wear such tight shoes that we can’t 
possibly walk with comfort. When I was a 
boy they used to tell me that a person’s heart 
is always the size of his fist, and bis brain the 
size of his foot. So when we worry about the 
size of our hands we make our hearts uncom¬ 
fortable, and when we try to make our feet 
smaller we show that we are losing a little 
common sense.— u. M.] 
Dear Uncle Mark; I have been reading 
the letters from the Cousins in the Rural and 
enjoying them very much. May I join them? 
1 am a girl 12 years old. I live on a farm two 
miles from North Platte. We have been liv¬ 
ing in town, but I like to live on the farm 
better. We have lfiO head of thoroughbred 
Short-horn cattle, three horses, two mules, 70 
chickens ami two kittens. The kittens’ names 
are Tiger and Smutty. We received the Seed 
Distribution this morning and were well 
pleased. Hoping I may join, I remain yours, 
North Platte, Neb. Sue Hinman. 
[Yes, you may join. We would like to see 
the cattle.—u. M.J 
Dear Uncle Mark: My little girl has 
made an attempt to write you. She is but 
six years old and dearly loves flowers and 
cultivates them too. She has hail much to 
say about Uncle Mark ever since she could 
talk and about the Cousins’ letters too. I 
tliiuk that no other uncle ever bad so much 
affection lavished upon him by the little folks, 
I think I had better send you a copy of her 
letter. mrs. s. Baldwin, 
‘•Dear Uncle Mark: I would like to join 
the Y. H. C. The flowers were very pretty 
from seeds which you sent my Mamma, I am 
six years old. grace s. Baldwin.” 
Howard Lake, Minn. 
[I am glad Grace wrote. No matter how 
the letter looks. Unde Mark appreciates all 
the good words.—u. M.] 
Letters have been received from Dean 8pray; Henry 
C. Anderson; Eugene C. L. Morse; Susie R. Ball; Ida 
Davidson; Gertie Blanchard; Dora Shepherd; Lewis 
W. Peterson, 
Pte'ccUaneou.d 
A WOMAN OF PLUCK AND WISDOM. 
Passing up Front street, Philadelphia, the 
other day, your correspondent, saw the name 
of E. Yannaman on the sign over her store. 
The name struck me as familiar, aud after a 
little study I recalled it as one I had often 
heard mentioned in connect ion with a very 
unexpected recovery from the dread disease 
Consumption. Beiug curious to learn the 
facts from her own lips, 1 resolved to stop 
a moment. 
Entering the store, 1 fouud the lady herself 
in charge. She was a sprightly, fair-skinned, 
good conditioned woman, who could entertain 
a visitor without neglecting a customer. 
Salutatious were passed, and in reply to a 
question she said, k *Yes, it was a terrible time 
for me. My husband was a long time sick, and 
then died. The care of the store fell on me. 
This, together with my housework, my loug 
watching, the grief and worry at his death, 
told fearfully on me. Exposure brought ou a 
terrible cold which broke me up entirely.” 
“When was all this?” I asked. 
“In 1888. Over two years ago now. 1 hail 
to put my son iufco the store to tend for me. 
Could not even do my housework. Got into 
bed, and had to stay there for days at a time. 
Everyone who called said I could uot live 
three months. Yes I hail two doctors, and 
good ones, but they shook their heads and 
gave me no hope. The best they could do was 
relieve my cough temporarily. I begau to 
lose heart too, for my mother and every one of 
my family had died of consumption, aud it 
looked as if my time had come.” Here she 
tripped lightly around the counter to wait on 
a customer. After depositing the money in 
the drawer, she returned and I said: 
“I don’t wish to appear inquisitive, Mi’s. 
Vanuaman, but would you be kind enough to 
to give a little more in detail the nature of 
your sickness—the symptoms, as the doctors 
would say?” 
“The most distressing was my terrible, 
racking cough, which worried me night and 
day. It was on my chest. I had hard pain 
all down my breast bone, and savage pains in 
my shoulders, back and limbs. My appetite 
failed. Every night I was exhausted with 
fevers and night-sweats. My nervous system 
was all broken up, and I shook at times as if 1 
had the palsy.” 
“Well, Madam, you don’t look now as if you 
had ever been so sick. How in the world did 
you manage to bring about such a wonderful 
changef’ 
“Why one day my son read from a paper 
about the virtue of Caunabis Sativa, the great 
East India cure for consumption. He said, 
‘Mother, it seems to be just what you need: I 
wish you would try it’ I said, ‘Well, I can’t 
live this way; we’ll get some, and I’ll take it.”’ 
“And did it do you good?" 
“Good? Well, now, let me tell you. I never 
watched the effects of any medicine so closely, 
aud, as you may believe, withso much surprise. 
The first thing to go was my nervousness. In 
one week that began to disappear. I felt the 
improvement all through me, and was encour¬ 
aged. Then my appetite came back, and I 
have had a good one ever since. My weakness 
left by degrees, and I got up and abour. Soon 
resumed my household duties, and by and by 
the care of the store. The pains left my chest, 
body aud limbs, and have never returned. I 
took on flesh and came up from a skeleton till 
I now weigh 183 pounds. My cough was the 
last to go, but it gradually diminished, and 
now I never cough except when I have a cold. 
My luugs are all right.” 
“Do you take cold easily ?” 
“Not more readily tlrnu other people. But 
I take care of myself aud don’t invito cold by 
unnecessary exposure. I work hard, am active 
on my feet, and can endure as well as l ever 
could. My age. you ask? Now you know 
ladies are the least bit sensitive on that point. 
However, as I don't intend to marry agaia, I’ll 
tell you in confidence, I’m 51. Yes, I keep 
Cannabis Sativa in the house all the time, and 
use a little along as a precaution. When I 
catch cold I always use it in full doses. It 
takes right hold of my colds and never fails to 
break them up by the second day. I never 
took anything that acted so promptly with me. 
Nothiug can be surer than this, that if 1 had 
not taken C'auuabis Sativa when I did. and as 
I did. I would not be alive to-day.” 
After so wonderful a recovery one is not 
surprised at Mrs. Vannaman’s faith and pre¬ 
caution. Yet it is not greater than that of 
Hon. F. Mathews, American Consul at Tan¬ 
gier, in Morocco, Africa, who writes to his 
friend, Mr. Albert Simon at Dansville, N. Y., 
recommending Cannabis Sativa to him as a 
specific for lung disease. Mr. Mathews had 
cured himself of an ularming cough, and had 
also cured several eases of consumption with 
it in Tangiers. He natouly advises his friend, 
Mr. Simon, to try it, but asks him, in case he 
comes to Tangiers for a change of climate, to 
bring five packages along for his, Mr. Math¬ 
ew’s, further use among consumptives there. 
Rev. A. L, Morey, formerly pastor Hamp¬ 
ton F. B. Church, now the President of Ridge- 
ville College, Ridgeville, lnd., writes: “Ex¬ 
pert physicians pronounced my wife in con¬ 
sumption and treated her for it. She was in¬ 
formed she could live but a few mouths. She 
coughed, bled fiom the lungs, and tried con¬ 
sumptive remedies without avail, till I secur¬ 
ed your C’auuabis Sativa Remed.v. Gradually 
her cough subsided and the dread disease re¬ 
treated.” 
Dr. H. H. Davis, Rosebud, White Co., Ark , 
is not such a stickler for his own remedies as 
to let a patieut die when they fail. He writes: 
“Send me your Cannabis Sativa Remedy for 
Consumption for one of my patients. I tried 
it two years ago. It will positively cure con¬ 
sumption .” 
Mrs. M. Allen. Academia, Pa., like Mrs. 
Yannaman, of Philadelphia, keeps Cannabis 
Saliva in her house all the time. She inheri¬ 
ted weak lungs and is the only’ one left out of 
a family of six—all having died of consump¬ 
tion. Three years ago she fell into decline and 
thought her time had come. She writes: 
“Cannabis Sativa saved me after all hope was 
gone, Last summer I did more work and en¬ 
joyed better health than ever in my life be¬ 
fore. I cannot be too thankful.” 
For further particulars about Cannabis Sa¬ 
tiva, the greatest East. India Consumption 
Cure, send for a treatise telling of its discov¬ 
ery, its action in disease aud the record of its 
cures. It will be sent free on application to 
W. A. Noyes, 149 Powers’ Block, Rochester, 
N. Y. 
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