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hens, two dogs, 36 head of cattle, 65 pigs, and 
five horses. There are two railroads running 
through our farm. Oh! I almost forgot to ask 
you if I might join the Y. H. C .! but I won’t 
make this letter too long, for if I do, you won't 
want me to write again. Jessie marsh. 
[Yes, you are now a Cousin. Your farm is 
pretty large. I am glad the silo is such a suc¬ 
cess,—u. M.l _ 
Dear Unct.e Mark: I had two stands of 
bees of my own. They were very weak in the 
Spring, but had increased so by the middle of 
July, that I expected them to swarm, but 
they did not, and I swarmed them artificially 
by takiug all the frames of comb and bees out . 
and shaking the bees down in front of the 
hive and letting them ran in on empty combs. 
I theu removed my other hive of bees to a new 
location, and placed an empty hive in its 
place. The returning bees entered the hive as 
they knew of no other place to go to. I neg¬ 
lected to say that I did this when the bees 
were hard at work. I then placed my combs 
OW many of the Cousins 
have ever seen the May- 
flower or trailing arbutus? 
OP Not many, I fear, for it is 
ouly found throughout 
New England, along the 
’ }j £ coast, and along Lake 
before he died. Mr. Dodge was indeed one of 
the sprightbest of old gentlemen. He was as 
most men of fifty, although he was about 
.seventy-five. IJp to the time of his death, 
which came very suddenly, he was able to ac¬ 
complish more work in a day thau almost any 
of his partners or clerks could get through 
with. 
In Philadelphia lives another “young old 
man,” one of the most venerable of Methodist 
ministers. He is as active, as hearty and as 
cheery as was Mr. Dodge. He is the Rev. An¬ 
thony Atwood, honored and beloved not only 
by Methodists, butby good peopleof every per- 
suasiou. Mr. Atwood might pass for a man of 
about sixty, but be is eighty-five. About 15 
years ago he told the writer that he hardly 
expected to do much more work, and that he 
thought a man of seventy might be considered 
to have rendered all the effective service he 
would be capable of. Yet, since that time 
Mr. Atwood has done more ministerial work 
than many a younger man has accomplished. 
Some years ago he had a partial stroke of 
paralysis, which for a while disturbed his 
eeneral health. He also suffered from a bron- 
stern though they were. I have seen some 
pretty rough men that you never would think 
capable of showing any feeling, pick May¬ 
flowers and put them in their buttonholes. 
City people are very fond of these little wild 
flowers. The boy s and girls in the country 
along the Old Colony Railroad make consider¬ 
able money every Spring at picking May¬ 
flowers for the Boston florists. Uncle Mark 
used to do this work himself years ago. It 
was far more, profitable than picking huckle¬ 
berries. We would gather the flowers in great 
baskets and bring them home, when the girls 
would make them up into small bunches. 1 he 
girls could always beat the boys at this work, 
and we were glad enough to admit it. In the 
morning, we would seud great boxes of these 
bunches of fragrance up to Boston, where they 
would gladden the hearts of the city people 
for many a day. I often think that some of 
the best hours of my boyhood were passed ou 
those gray old bills hunting for Mayflowers. I 
wish all the Cousins could see them. 
uu ftps dreary fields of the cold, bleak Nort h, 
Where the snow lies loutt ou the barren hills, 
You fill all the ah with a perfume rare 
Like a breath from Heaveu-a touch that thrills. 
You come with smiles though the fields are dead 
And the barren hillside broods and grieves, 
From the hills of gray that look far away 
O’er the sea, you gladden the dead brown leaves. 
The gloomy Puritan, years ago. 
The soldier marching With sword ill hand. 
Passed smiling at you so tender and true. 
With a feeling they never could understand. 
You bring us back from the long ago, 
A life we dropped as the stern years swung, 
When life was new and as sweet as you, 
And Care hung back with a palsied tongue. 
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man; aud you appear to enjoy quire as goon 
health as most of the younger men." 
“My health,” said Mr. Atwood, “is all I can 
expect, considering iny age. which is now 
close to eighty-five. Since the stroke of par¬ 
alysis, which I had several years ago. I have 
not been able to preach with my former vigor. 
I find that I am not cu]table of a prolonged 
pulpit effort as of old. Words do not follow 
my thoughts as quickly as they used to. But 
with this execution I am about as well as I 
great brown bunch of buzzing bees and strike 
the limb with his stick. Once eaeli season he 
was sure to fall down while runuing away, 
and then the bees had him at their mercy. 
How they did sting him! 1 can remember how 
he used to look, after the battle, sitting in his 
arm chair in the kitchen, with his face and 
hands all swollen, telling how much better 
the bees were when he was a boy. So I never 
used to think much of bees when I was a boy. 
But I have changed my mind since I came to 
see how pleasant and profitable the work cau bo 
made by careful attention. I can go and 
stand right among them without any danger 
of being stung. There ought to be a few’ good 
hives on every farm, anil the boys and git Is 
could help father ami mother, and make bet¬ 
ter men and women of themselves too, 
by learning how to care for bees. Honey is the 
healthiest aud best of all sweet foods. I 
wish farmers would use three times as much 
of it as they now do. to M - 
Dear Uncle Mark and Cousins: I do 
not get much time to write or study, because 
my little sister Edith hinders me very much. 
When 1 sit down she gets up beside me aud 
tries to help write too, and you know' she don’t 
help much: she is only two years old. 81ie 
tries to do all kind of house-work and is so 
cute and cunning that we cannot be cross 
with her, so 1 go and play with tier when she 
wants me to. 1 want Uncle Mark to send me 
weeds, for Pa oft savs we can have all the 
the best. I have a little kitten; Its name is 
Piukey. It will play very nicely. I have six 
sisters and two brothers; I am the youngest 
of them all. I have five rabbits, three white 
ones, one black oiie, and a brown one. I like 
to crochet very much, I w r isb that the Cous¬ 
ins would send me some patterns. I have a 
dolly; her name is Maud. Well, I must stop, 
or my letter will be too long for print. 
From your Niece, 
Mayfield, N. Y. mattie knapp. 
[Who can seud the patterns? I wonder what 
color Pin key can be? M - 
Dear Uncle Mark: It is nearly a year 
since we wrote our last letter. Since then we 
have traded our farm for auother of 110 
acres. The Cedar River runs through f*. 
There are quite a good many fish in it. The 
fish will soon begin to run and we will get 
some of them. They will be pickerel mostly. 
Pa is going to give J ohn and I a quarter of an 
acre of ground for garden. I am going to 
plant some corn, potatoes, beaus, unions, pars¬ 
nip, radish, lettuce aud cabbage. I am going 
to raise some cabbage plants to sell. Two 
years ago we sold a lot of pJauts. I will write 
and tell you how we succeed with our garden. 
clarence, john and willie choop. 
[Pickerel are very good to eat. I hope you 
will have a good garden.—tr. M.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: I am a little girl, 13 
years old. I live on a farm in Trempealeau 
Co., a mile aud a half from town. I like liv¬ 
ing on a farm very much. We have a silo anil 
make ensilage for the cuttle, and Papa thinks 
it is worth double its cost for stock. I have 
a little pet dog; he is three years old, aud his 
name is Cute. I did have two canaries, but 
they got away last Summer. Our farm ib most 
too lartre: there are 5130 acres. We have 50 
fully restored that I was iu no further need. 
It gave me a new vitality, restored my gen¬ 
eral health, and put my whole system iu re¬ 
newed good order.” 
“You had some bronchial difficulty, did 
you not, Mr. Atwood?” 
“Yes; I had an irritation in my throat 
which was quite troublesome, aud threatened 
to be more so. I tried Compound Oxygen for 
this also, and was surprised not only to fiud 
the completeness of tlie relief it afforded me, 
but the readiness with which it acted. I pro- 
cur od a “Home Treatment” in order to cure 
this bronchial trouble at my leisure; suppos¬ 
ing the irritation would be slow to go away, 
as it is in the case of many clergymen, who, 
after long years of pulpit service, ure attacked 
with soreness of the vocal organs. But I had 
occasion to use ouly a small portion of whut 
was contained iu the 1 ‘Treatment. My 
throat became so much better that I had no 
occasion again to resort to the use of Oxygen.” 
“And have you, since your recovery, had 
much occasion to use this remedy, Mr. 
Atwood?” 
“Not a regular thing, at all; only at long 
intervals. Once in a while, if 1 needugeneral 
toning up of my system, 1 call at the new of¬ 
fice of Drs. Starkey & Paleu —which, by the 
way, is an exceedingly beautiful and conven¬ 
ient place— and I take a few inhalations. 
From this I always receive benefit and 
strength.” 
“You are, then, a firm believer in this me¬ 
thod of treatment?” 
"Yes, very, very firm. You may say that 
I most heartily and thoroughly approve the 
treatment aud endorse Drs. Starkey & Palen 
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