for \\)t Holing. 
COW FOOLS. 
It was a Jersey lieifer 
Walking through a pasture small, 
Met a Shorthorn cow a-feeding 
Where the grass grew sweet and tall. 
Bright and pretty was the Jersey, 
Loug her pedigree, and neat, 
Fat and awkward was the Shorthorn, 
Like a mountain luillt of meat. 
And the Shorthorn stopped her feeding 
As the Jersey wandered near, 
“Here is grass." site said, “in plenty; 
Let us eat together here.” 
But the Jersey tossed her nose up 
In the most provoking way, 
And she said, "1 thank you kindly, 
But I think l will not stay; 
I am higher bred than you, ma’rm, 
And I think you will agree, 
I should lose my social standing 
I n your low society." 
Then the Shorthorn Knotted fiercely, 
For iter pride was deeply hurt; 
And she said, "A right good riddance 
When you go—you little flirt. 
It is true, your golden butter 
Is a pretty thing tosoe, 
But what else. Miss, are you good for? 
There is no tiling I’ll agree. 
For men cannot live on butter; 
They would quickly come to grief 
If fat belles such as 1 am 
Didn’t keep them up with beef.” 
So the Shorthorn and the Jersey 
Stood anil argued loud and long, 
Each one tried to prove the other 
Was entirely lit the wrong. 
Till at last they fell to fighting. 
And the Jersey's unbelief 
Fell away before the pushing 
Of the Shorthorn's solid beef. 
And she limped away in silence. 
Feeling Very mean and small; 
While the Shorthorn was so angry 
That she could not eat at all. 
You will say—What foolish creatures! 
So they were-but tel) me, pray, 
Can we uot flud human beings 
Who are just such fools to-day? 
There are folks who, like, the Jersey. 
Feel themselves above a man 
Who is slow, perhaps, aud awkward. 
And must labor as be eau. 
There are ot hers, like the Shorthorn, 
Who would sneer at thought of guilt, 
To be wrought unto a country 
By the working of a brain. 
Now what trouble would be buried 
If we, all of us, could sue 
That it takes all sorts of people 
To make up this great country. 
For the world goes on forever. 
It is very like a race; 
We must all run in the contest, 
We must always find our place. 
Let us view the works of others 
With a certain charity. 
Aud believe their wot le are houest, 
Though we cannot all agree. 
I am getting a little frightened at the cords 
of words you are plowing out. I bad no idea 
there would be so many. During the past 
week, lists hat e been received from Harry 
King, lien. H, Strong, Chas. Crane, Murray 
Gilkison, Ella M. Turner, Fred Corless, Frank 
E. Halbert, Ellie Mixon, Archie Lockhart, H. 
M. Ross, Johnnie R. Giles, Andrew Dermott, 
Ray 0. Jewell, Willie S. Earhart, Fred W. 
Park, Amy B. Powers, Warren Collins, Hattie 
Van Skiver, Ernest McRcynolds, FredH. Car¬ 
penter, Elbert Marshall, W. W. Wasfaburne, 
Charles H. Johnson, Kittie Lamb. Willie By- 
ram, Meal Eekcrson, Frank Murphy, Frank 
Hawley, James W. Searson, C. W. Kruse, 
Charles Wallace, Frank 13. Williams, George 
B. Baskervelt, Abram H. Prince, Annie M 
Hall, Henry Croyle, Sylvesta Thompson, 
Bessie G. Lehman, Chas. W. Ingraham, .lames 
W. Brown, C. C. Bruce, Ralph Sawyer, \V. 
M, Newne, and one not signed. We shall 
cover an acre of paper if we keep on. 
Some of the Cousins have sent in lists of 
Latin words. These will not be accepted. We 
had better confine ourselves to English 1 think. 
To tell the truth, 1 am lost whenever 1 go very 
fur out of English, and I hope none of you 
want to lose me yet. 
I find that quite a number of our boys and 
girls have neither brothers nor sisters, so that 
they have to do all the work of hunting out 
the words alone. I feel sorry for them, be¬ 
cause I know it would be very pleasa nt to have 
som body in the family to play with and to 
talk to. But these boys aud girls who have 
hunted out the words all alone have done so 
well that 1 am very proud of them. The work 
will help them very much, tor 1 find that the 
things we have to puzzle out ourselves seem to 
stick to the brain the longest. It pays to be 
able to spell well, 1 can tell you. Many boys 
that I know of have lost good situations be¬ 
cause, when asked to write a specimen letter, 
they got two or three words all out of shape. 
Five minutes spent in looking over the diction¬ 
ary would have saved them. Never be 
ashamed to look at the dictionary. We can 
talk very well without betraying our bail spell¬ 
ing, but when we come to write it down, there 
is no chance to get away from it. 
THE ROM! ItEW-YORKEf* 
« 
I had a pleasant surprise last week. I re¬ 
received a box of asparagus from Annie and 
Lou Hall. It was the most delicious asparagus 
I ever tasted and you may be sure that I en¬ 
joyed it, I have never seen anything neater 
that the way in which this asparagus was 
packed. It was tied up in round bunches as 
firm and compact as one could wish. The 
light heads were clustered at the centre of each 
bunch with the dark'green heads on the 
outside, so that it was really as pretty as a 
bouquet. Such au arrangement must add 
greatly to its attractiveness. It shows what, 
neatness and taste will accomplish. I am sure 
that Annie and Lou are a great help to their 
Papa. 
“Mistress Mary, quite contrary, how does 
your garden grow?” 1 used to read that old 
rhyme when I was a boy, and I suppose 
most of you have seen it a great many times. 
We have a great many Marys in our family, 
and while I hope uone of them are “quite con¬ 
trary,” I do hope each one lias a garden. So 
I am going to ask “how does i/our garden 
grow?” I hope you can all give a better an¬ 
swer than the Mary in the old song. I wish I 
could go around aud look at all the gardens. 
I wonder if 1 should find any weeds; what do 
you think about it? I have an idea that the 
gardens are looking pretty well. It will pay 
to keep them in good shape for nobody knows 
when 1 shall come to look them over. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS 
Dear Uncle Mark: I received the sweet 
peas you sent me, and thank you very much 
for them. I planted them and they are just 
coming up. Pa received his Rural seeds. He 
planted the Garden Treasures and they all turn¬ 
ed out to be tomatoes. He also planted the 
melons. We have potatoes up a foot high. 
I am going to have a very nice flower garden 
this Summer. The seeds are plautvd, but some 
of them are not up yet. We are goiug to have 
some splendid Chrysanthemums. They are 
now nlxiut three inches high. Our house 
plants are doing nicely. We will have a lot of 
fruit this year. The strawberries are in blos¬ 
som. Pa has got some called the “Jewell” so 
highly recommended by the Rural. I wish 
you aud Aunt Beth could come over aud help 
us eat them. I see by the last Rural that 
you are a strong temperance man. Ma is 
glad to learn that you are, for she is a temper¬ 
ance woman: being brought up in the State of 
Maine, she could not otherwise be anything 
else. KI.LA M. TURNER. 
Cornwall, Ontario. 
[I wish 1 could come aud help eat the straw¬ 
berries. 1 think Aunt Beth would accept the 
invitation if possible. We want all the tem¬ 
perance people we can find.] —u. M. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I suppose it is about 
time for me to write if I wish to remain a 
member of the Y. H. C. 1 should have written 
long ago, but you know something of farm 
life. Although I have not written for a loug 
time, I have al ways managed to find time to 
read our department. Perhaps it might uot 
prove uninteresting to tell what vegetables 
and what varieties sucoeed best here. I will 
begin with beans: the general favorites are 
German Pod Wax, Golden Wax aud Ivory 
Pud Wax. Peas, Ferry’s First aud Best Amer¬ 
ican Wonder and Chamuion. Onions, Red 
Westersfield, Yellow Globe Danvers, aud 
Southport Yellow Globe; the latter is perhajis 
the most satisfactory of the three. Beets, 
Egyptian Blood Red and Eclipse. Cabbage, 
Early Jersey Wakefield, for early, and Hen¬ 
derson’s Early Summer and the Filderkraut 
for medium aud late. Radishes, Early Round 
Deep Scarlet aud French Breakfast. Toma¬ 
toes, Livingston's Perfection aud Favoxite. 
Squash, Hubbard, Marblehead, Essex's Hy¬ 
brid. Turnips, Purple Top Strap Leaved is 
about the only variety raised. Summer 
squash, Summer Crook Neck, Little Gem. The 
above mentioned varieties are no u utried nov¬ 
elties but have boeu fully tested and approved. 
Why do not some of our youthful farm¬ 
ers give their experience with corn? My own 
experience with new varieties has been some¬ 
what limited, but I will give it for what it’s 
worth. The earliest corn we have is the Pride 
of the North. It is small, aud it will not pay 
to raise this variety in this country, where we 
'■an raise larger varieties that will yield a 
great deal more to the acre with the same care. 
Hathaway’s may prove profitable. The (Jueen 
of the Prairie is the staple early corn with the 
farmers. Wright’s Golden is the best corn 1 
have tested. The Golden Beauty is another 
promising variety. Cloud's Deut is a failure. 
Taken altogether, Wright’s Golden and the 
Golden Beauty are the two varieties that 
seem to possess any merits above the ordinary 
field corn. I am glad that so tnuny of the 
Cousins are growing seedlings; may the good 
work continue. I have seedling raspberries, 
strawberries, blackberries and gooseberries, 
besides quite a number of seedling potatoes. 
Some of the vines I hopo will fruit this year, 
and another day I may write to you aud tell 
you how they perform. It is quite interesting 
to watch a plat of seedling potatoes. Possibly 
there are members like myself who are desir¬ 
ous of testing newer vegetables but have not 
the means to do so. Now then, Cannot we in 
a measure help each other, by exchanging 
seeds through the mails? I am very much in¬ 
terested at present in testing potatoes; have 
grown 30 to 35 varieties and have come to the 
conclusion that for home or market the fol¬ 
lowing eight sorts are the best I have grown. 
E. Sunrise, E. Gem, Chicago Market, Mam¬ 
moth Pearl, O. K. Mammoth. Prolific, White 
Elephant, Walls Orauge aud Rural Blush. If 
any of the Cousins who are interested in po¬ 
tatoes, who haven’t got, or desire to get one 
or more varieties mentioned, would care to 
exchange tubers of other sorts for them, I 
would be glad to hear from them. 
Your Rural nephew, 
Edinburg, Ills. frank log ax. 
[A good idea that! T think we can make an 
exchange department that will be very profit¬ 
able. Let us try it.—u. M.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: I am a boy, 15 j'ears 
old aud live near Los Gatos, a little town 10 
miles from Sau Jose, California. I would like 
to become one of the Cousins, and am going to 
try and get the plow. They raise oranges, 
lemons, tigs, olivas, almonds, apricots and a 
great many other fruits here. The prospect 
for grain was never any better (hat it is this 
year, ami there is going to be a large crop of 
l'ruit. We had no snow here this Winter, but 
there was snow on the mountains around us. 
I had a pair of pigeons, but the skunks killed 
them. I caught the skunks in a trap lint the 
box 1 caught them in was not large enough, 
and they got away. There are a great many 
gophers around here, and we have to keep 
traps set all the time to keep them from eat ing 
the roots off our trees. We have some corn 
and potatoes planted and I am going to have a 
quarter of the crop for cultivating them. We 
have seven acres of land and TOO fruit trees. 
I have cultivated them live times this Spring. 
Cherries are almost ripe and prune trees are 
loaded with green fruit. We have 30 bens 
aud about 40 chickens. fred corless. 
[You are far away from headquarters, but 
our family is large enough to include you. I 
am sorry the skunks got away. They deserved 
death. Wouldn’t some of the Cousins laugh 
to see those gophers sitting at the entrance to 
the hole? They are bright little fellows, but 
they do lots of mischief.— U. M.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: Thanks for the nice 
package of Cauna seeds 1 received. I will try 
aud make them grow. Mamma and I are very 
fond of flowers and plants aud pete. We have 
eight little lambs ami 33 young chickens. I 
guess their toes are cold, but we t ry to take 
care of t hem. We have a nice home, lots of 
fowls and cattle, horses, etc. Would like to 
have some of the little Cousins write me a let¬ 
ter. I am nine years old. I am piecing a 
quilt and making a scrap book. 
Your loving niece, retta m. AVERY. 
Lebanon, Laclede Co., Mo. 
Dear Uncle Mark: My father has taken 
the Rural for two years, and 1 always read 
the letters from the Cousins, so I thought I 
would write to see if I might become one of 
them. I raised some peas last year and the 
year before, aud they did well for the care 
they got, but next year I am goiug to raise 
some more and tuke better care of them. My 
father Is a fruit man, has 350 plum trees, 50 of 
which are iu bearing condition, six acres of 
grapes, 3,000 peach trees in bearing condition, 
350 pear trees, two or three acres of apple 
trees, aud about 13 acres of gooseberries, cur¬ 
rants, red aud black raspberries, and straw¬ 
berries and blackberries. I have a cow, a pair 
of rabbits aud 13 hens. I wonder if auy of 
the Cousins have any rabbits. 1 must close. 
Your nephew, Austin estabrook. 
Grafton, Mans. 
Dear Uncle Mark: — I have often read the 
letters your nephews and nieces have written, 
and thought I would write one. I would like 
to join the Club, too. Papa is a farmer iu 
Dakota. He spends his Summer and Fall 
there, and the Winter at home. I have two 
brothers out there and one at home. I have 
no sisters. 1 am next to the eldest. Papa 
owns 300 acres of land iu Dakota, 1150 iu Neb¬ 
raska and a large drug store here, which 
Mamma runs while Pupa is away. Shortly 
before Papa loft he gave me a very handsome 
piano. It is an U pright. Our school will be 
out in three weeks, aud then I will receive a 
diploma, so that 1 can go to the High School, 
Last year there were five diplomas, and this 
year there will be nine, if not more. 
Your affectionate niece, ED a seymour. 
I Dwight, IU. 
PijsrcUaneou,$' itvcvti.siun 
A LIBERAL OFFER. 
Five Thousand Dollars to auy Charitable 
Institute, 
II It Cannot be Done as It is Stated. 
Rochester, N. ¥., Union and Advertiser. 
Friends of Ex-President Arthur are very 
much disquieted. 
Of course he is not going to die! He is in 
the hands of a very particular physician. 
His doctor does not call it Bright’s Disease! 
No, it is stomach disorder that he is suffering 
from now, aud every few hours he takes a 
cold, and from time to time many other symp¬ 
toms are develop'd. These symptoms the 
public should know arc really secondary to 
Bright’s Disease, 
His physicians say that everything that 
medical skill can do for him is being done. 
This is not so! 
This case is a prominent one because the 
general is an ex-president; and yet there are 
thousands of farmers quietly dying in their 
farm houses of secondary symptoms of Bright’s 
Disease, called by every other conceivable 
name: thousands of workmen, likewise dying, 
leaving helpless families; hundreds of thous¬ 
ands in all walks of life who have sickened, 
aud are likewise dying, helpless victims of 
powerless physicians. 
Eight years ago a very well-known gentle¬ 
man was about to enter upon large commer¬ 
cial transactions. His medical adviser quietly 
dropped into his office one day and told his 
confidential clerk that ho would be dead in 
three months, and that he ought to settle up 
his busiuess affairs at once! 
That man is alive and well to-day, yet he 
was giveu up as incurable with the same dis¬ 
ease that is killing General Arthur! 
Our reporter met this gentleman yesterday 
and in conversation about the General’s case, 
he said; 
“1 will give $5,030 to any charitable institu¬ 
tion in the state of New York, to be designa¬ 
ted. by the editor of the New York World, the 
editor of the Buffalo News and W. E. Kissel- 
burgh of the Troy Times, if Warner’s safe 
cure (taken according to my directions) which 
cured mo eight, years ago, cannot cure General 
Chester A. Arthur of Bright’s disease from 
which he is sulfering.” 
“Now I want you to understand,” he said, 
“that'we do not profess to make new kidneys, 
but we do know from personal experience and 
from the experience of many thousands of 
similar cases, that we can stop the consump¬ 
tion of the kidneys. Many a man has gone 
through life with one kidney without iueou- 
vewenee. Thousands of people have lived a 
majority of their life with one lung. They 
did not have a new lung made. We do uot 
make new kidneys, but if the kidney is not 
consumed too much we can stop disease and 
prolong life if taken in time.” 
This offer comes from H. H. Warner proprie¬ 
tor of Warner’s safe cure, of this city. 
Mr. Warner also said, “Mv dear sir, there 
are governors, senators, presidential candi¬ 
dates, mem hers of congress, prominent men 
aud women all over the country whom I per- 
sonally know have been cured of disease, such 
as General Arthur suffers from, by our War¬ 
ner’s safe cure, but owing to the circles iu 
which tbey r move they do not care to give 
public testimonial to the fact.” 
Mr. Warner is interested in General Ar¬ 
thur’s case because he is personally acquainted 
with him and he says that it is a shame that 
any man should lx- allowed to die under the 
operation of old-fashioned powerful cathartics, 
which have no curative effects, rather than 
that a modern, conceded specific for kidney 
disease whose worth is acknowledged world¬ 
wide, should save him. 
“If you doubt the efficacy of Warner’s safe 
cure,” say the proprietors, “ask your friends 
and neighbois about it. This is asking but 
little. They can tell you all you want to 
know.” 
“We have kept a standing offer before the 
public for four years,” says Mr. Warner, “that 
we will give $5,000 to any person who can suc¬ 
cessfully dispute the genuineness, so far as we 
know, of the testimonials we publish, and 
none have done it.” 
Were General Arthur a poor man unable to 
be left “in the hands of his physician,” he 
would use that great remedy, ns many thou¬ 
sands of others have done, and get well. How 
absurd then for people to say that everything 
that can be done is Rung done for the ex-Pre- 
sidont, when th • one successful remedy in the 
world that has Cured, or thut can cure a case 
like his, bus not been used by them. 
LJ nDTU A Al 1^ \YtilingIhntmiqMj/tauqM 
■ ■ | nHIHUhy mall or personally. 
Ituations procured ell pupils when competent. ( 
end lor circular.* W. G. CHAFFEE, Oiwutjx, E.K, 
