CHAPTER II.

It was to be a sacrifice, as the mother had said.

“But,” Mrs. Brimmer’s tone changed to a ringing one of hopefulness and courage, “the money thus taken out and used, will be the best investment possible; better than a ten per cent interest for all of us. Think of it, children; an education for you and for me!” and for one little moment, the barriers of a pent-up longing, that had possessed her heart for years, were dropped.

“Mother,” they cried, “let us have Mr. Thomas come just as soon as he can!”

“He can’t come till Christmas Eve,” said Mrs. Brimmer. “But he’ll begin then, and be glad to, for he’s too poor to go home for a vacation. So he told me yesterday, when I stopped into the District school.”

“Is that where you went, Mamsie, in the afternoon, when you put on your Sunday shawl and bonnet?” asked Rosy, who hadn’t recovered from the astonishment produced by seeing such preparations made for a visit about which there was no attending conversation.

“Yes, child; I asked Jack about it, first; and then he wanted, if Mr. Thomas could do it, to have me tell you and see if you would like to fall into the plan. If Mr. Thomas couldn’t do it, why, then, you two wouldn’t have any disappointment to bear. But he can. O, what a Christmas we will have!”

THE RAILROAD ON MT. PILATUS

IF the Rigi Railroad is worthy of being considered an extraordinary and wonderful piece of work, the latest undertaking of this kind—the building of the railroad on Mt. Pilatus—certainly ought to attract the attention of engineers and of the travelling public. This new road differs essentially from its older rivals in the construction of its roadbed, as well as of the rolling stock. The ruggedness and steepness of the mountain, together with its great height (sixty-eight hundred and eighty-two feet, against fifty-nine hundred and five, in the case of Rigi), offered much greater obstacles than the roads previously built, and required an entirely different system. The restless spirit of man is always glad to set for itself some new task, and consequently men were found who, equipped with the necessary capital, were willing and able to carry out this tremendous undertaking. When a portion of the road had been completed, all fear in regard to strength and safety were removed, for it was thoroughly tested every day, the locomotives going as often as it was necessary to that part of the road on which they were at work, carrying materials of all kinds, weighing from twenty thousand to twenty-two thousand pounds. The southeastern side of the mountain was chosen for the road, which begins at Alpnach-Stad, between the Hotel Pilatus and the Eagle Hotel (one thousand four hundred and forty-eight feet above the level of the sea). From there it climbs in a northerly direction to the Aemsigenalp, then westward to the Mattalp (fifty-three hundred and fifteen feet above the sea), and after much winding reaches the plateau of the Hotel Bellevue on Mount Pilatus (sixty-eight hundred and eleven feet above the sea). The road is about two and three quarters miles long, and the total height climbed from the shore of Alpnacht Bay to the Hotel Bellevue is fifty-three hundred and sixty feet. The grade is from eighteen to forty-eight per cent., which is scarcely exceeded by any rope road. In the middle of the line, at Alp Aemsigen, there is a switch. Seventy-two hundred and sixty-seven feet of the entire road consists of straight stretches, curves with radii of from two hundred and sixty-two feet to three hundred and twenty-eight feet, constituting the remainder. The road includes a viaduct, three short tunnels and one long one. The width of the track is two feet seven inches. The foundation consists of a wall covered with plates of granite and loose material, and on this the superstructure is firmly anchored. The tooth-bar—which is placed midway between the rails and is somewhat higher than the latter—consists of soft steel, and is provided with a double row of vertical teeth, which are milled out of the bar. The cogged wheels on the cars, which engage the toothed bar, are arranged in pairs at the right and left of the same. The axles of these cogwheels are not horizontal with the level of the road, as in the Rigi system, but perpendicular to the same, this arrangement making it impossible for the cogwheels to become displaced. The locomotives and cars form a train with two running axles and four cogwheels engaging the toothed bar. The boiler and engine are behind or below the cars, which latter accommodate thirty-two passengers. Brakes can be applied to all of the cogwheels, and besides this there are two clamps at the upper running-axle, which clutch the head of the rail, thus preventing the upsetting of the cars by the wind. The weight of the loaded cars is about twenty-one thousand pounds, and one trip up or down can be made in about eighty minutes. The idea of the Pilatus road originated with Edward Locher, under whose supervision and control the road has been built. The engine was invented by Mechanical Engineer Haas.—_Illustrirte Zeitung._

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RECENT discoveries have settled the vexed question of the former existence of lions in Australia. Bones from the Wellington Caves, New South Wales, are regarded by Professor Owen of the British Museum, as being those of a marsupial or pouch-bearing lion, fully equal in size to the existing African species. These remains were found in connection with those of the Tasmanian Tiger and Tasmanian Devil. Quite curiously, Professor Owen many years ago expressed the conviction that certain ancient herbivorous animals of Australia must have been kept in check by a co-existent race of lions.—_Selected._

VALUE OF ARABIC NUMERALS.

FEW people, probably, have any adequate idea of the great difficulties in which arithmetic would be involved were it not for the happy invention of the Arabic numerals. Here is a very simple little sum in addition put Roman fashion.

The reader will find it “a nice amusement,” as the model papa always tells his daughters, to work it out as it stands without having recourse to Arabic notation:

MDCXLVIII MCCXLV DCCXXXIX MDCCCLXXXIV

None of these figures reach two thousand, and yet what a hopeless task to sum them up without an abacus! But that is, indeed, a small matter. Here are two better tests of the impossibility of arithmetic without Arabic notation:

Multiply (all in Roman figures) MDCCXLIV by DCLXXXIV, and divide MCCXLIII by XLV. Nothing could be simpler than these two sums, and yet it requires considerable intellect and very close attention to work them out on paper with the Roman symbols.—_Cornhill Magazine._

BABY’S CORNER.

Mamma was sorry that she had to punish poor naughty Joey. He had to be tied up in his little chair. He had no cherries. He cried very hard.

Joey will throw no more stones at his little brother.

MRS. C. M. LIVINGSTON.

_Volume 15, Number 9._ Copyright, 1887, by D. LOTHROP COMPANY. _December 31, 1887._

THE PANSY.

A BOY FROM THYATIRA.

In Siam the lotus lilies grow in great profusion, and one may sail for miles along the rivers through flooded fields covered with the lotus blossoms, which the natives are gathering for market.

Then there are the royal lotus gardens of Bangkok. These are several miles from the king’s palace. There is a carriage road leading out from the city, and these gardens are a famous place for picnics. At the grand funeral ceremonies of the Queen of Siam, one of the companies which walked in the procession carried tridents, the triple tips of which were each crowned with the white lotus. Every year thousands of real and artificial lilies are floated on the rivers and sea as offerings of the water spirits.

They are launched at night, with little wax tapers burning, and they are loaded with offerings to the gods.

Many beautiful fancies cluster about the lotus, and many songs have been written, which you may appreciate the more if you happen upon them, for knowing something about the beautiful fragrant flower “trembling on the crystal tide.”

THE YEAR OF OUR LORD.

THE following incident which occurred, as will be seen, many years ago, has lately been published, and is from the experience of Mr. Duncan, a well-known missionary to the Indians of British Columbia. He says:—

“I was teaching the Indians to write letters, and, as a matter of course, began at the name of the place at which the letter was supposed to be written. About that step there was nothing to call forth any remark from the Indians. Next came the name of the month. That elicited some smiles, but no questions. Then was added the day of the month, which also caused some interest, but no surprise. When, however, I added 1860 for the year, immediately the Indians inquired what did those figures mean, and why was the year so named? For a moment I was stunned at the answer which the question called for. Never before had I realized the startling meaning of those figures in connection with the Gospel, and how severely they witnessed against the Christian Church.

“The Indians seemed at once to seize with awe the information I offered on the subject, and their looks but too plainly indicated both reproach and astonishment that the message of God should have been withheld from them so long.

“I felt both ashamed and humiliated for my race, and wondered how so many generations of Christians since the apostolic age, could have dared, as they have done, to so willfully and fatally neglect, or, at best, but trifle with their Lord’s commission.”

“THE EVENING STAR.”

IN the large playground of a Christian school in Beirut is an arbor where several girls of the school were accustomed to meet just at sunset for a prayer meeting. They had organized this meeting by themselves, and one day the teacher asked, “What do you call your meeting?”

“Oh! we call it the ‘Evening Star,’ because when the sun sets the evening star comes out, and so, when the sun sets our little meeting is held, and we have named it the Evening Star.”

“And what do you pray for at the ‘Evening Star’?” asked the teacher.

“Oh! we pray for our teachers; but especially we pray for a new heart.”

GOWAHATIS.

NG-HIN-KI a young man of more than usual ability and energy joined the Third Presbyterian Church in Canton in September, 1881. His foster mother was bitterly enraged at him for so doing, and all his brothers were greatly displeased. They made strenuous efforts to prevent him from attending church and from performing his religious duties, but without success.

Their persecution, especially that of his foster mother, became so bitter that in the spring of 1882, he was given the place of door-keeper in one of our chapels, one hundred and thirty miles from Canton, receiving for his services two dollars and fifty cents per month. In the autumn of the same year he received a letter from an elder in the Third Church, advising him not to return to Canton, as his foster-mother and brothers had brought a charge against him of being _unfilial_, which in China is a very serious crime. Their object was to get him discharged from his position as bannerman. Instead, however, of remaining away from Canton, he at once returned, saying he would go at once and meet the charge. He found on arriving that all his property, one shop and three dwelling-houses, had been sold for fourteen hundred dollars. He was brought before a military officer and ordered to light three sticks of incense and place them before an idol. He was told that if he obeyed, the draft for fourteen hundred dollars lying upon the table would be restored to him, but if he refused he would lose not only that and his monthly allowance, but his betrothal, which had cost him three hundred dollars, would be made null and void, altogether that which he would forfeit would be what is for a Chinaman a comfortable and permanent livelihood. Sign and save, refuse and lose. He refused and was cast out penniless. He entered the training school, and after three years of faithful study was appointed to preach. He is now doing a useful and encouraging work three hundred miles from Canton, at Sam Kong, near Lien Chow. Until near the close of last year this man’s relatives refused to have anything to do with him, when, much to his delight, a great change took place. They became not only willing to welcome him home, but to hear him make known the Gospel. It came about in this way: one of his brothers at a tea-shop had seen a member of the Third Church, also a bannerman, telling the people about Jesus.

One of the company in anger struck him a blow in the face, telling him he need not come there to preach to them. He smiled and went on with his discourse. Ng-hin-ki’s brother was much surprised. He knew the speaker was naturally high-tempered, was physically strong, and was no coward. In fact he knew perfectly well that what prevented the bannerman from striking back was not fear, but principle. This won his admiration for the man and respect at least for his message and was the occasion of bringing about in his family the changed feeling mentioned above.

A PRODIGAL SON.

I HAVE opened one more school, a mile from the road. I had to walk that distance. Those burning days it was pretty severe, as the road lay over sand hills and plowed fields. The school was so nice, the children so happy, one could not remember the discomfort.

An old Mohammedan priest tried to break it up, and did compel some to withdraw their children, but the school is secure.

Several women came in to see Miss Sohiba and watch the school. The Bible lesson began from a picture of the Prodigal Son, hung on the wall. An old lady listened; her face sobered, tears filled her eyes; finally, amid broken sobs, she declared—

“O, Miss Sohiba, that is my boy! That is my boy!”

Most touchingly she told how he had gone, how she had watched and waited for him, but he never came back.—_Extract from Miss Pratt’s letter from India._

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

The address of Mrs. G. R. Alden (Pansy), is Winter Park, Orange Co., Florida. All contributions for THE PANSY magazine should be sent to that P. O., and _not_ to the Publishers, D. Lothrop Company.

ALL ALONG THE LINE.

_Conducted by_

R. M. ALDEN.

We have to thank many of our readers, this month, for helping us in this Department. Let others follow their example, and begin this part of the winter’s work. Address everything for us to R. M. Alden, Box 17, Winter Park, Orange County, Florida.

WE hear from the Secretary of a Band in India of how they are educating two Mexican girls, whom a missionary has taken to educate for teachers. Who knows what great food this seed may start?

A MISSION BAND in Brighton, Massachusetts, made over one hundred dollars in a fair held last May. There were fancy articles and refreshments sold. Twenty dollars were voted to the “Fresh Air Fund,” and twenty more to some home missionaries in the West. [We are indebted to Miss Bessie Cotton for the report.]

HAVE the readers of THE PANSY heard of the natives of the Charlotte Islands, ignorant and benighted, who gave, one Sabbath, one hundred of their blankets, valued at one dollar and twenty-five cents each, toward the erection of a new church? If we consider the resources and ideas of this people, it was truly a great gift, and a good example for any Americans. [We have to thank Adella F. Coy for calling our attention to this most interesting item.]

AT Nolo, Iowa, there is a very busy mission band, of nine members, which is making up a box for a hospital in Council Bluffs. They are earning money in various ways. Some gather eggs and have one out of every dozen, some have raised chickens, one little pigs. One boy’s father offered him ten cents apiece for all the squirrels he would catch on the farm. But so many poor nut-crackers became prisoners that the price came down to two and one half cents. The Band held a Lawn Festival, at which they sold various refreshments, and made thirteen dollars. They are knitting stockings, hoods, and mittens, dressing a doll and piecing a comforter. Success to all who “are not weary in well-doing.”

IN the streets of large mission stations of Japan, there are rooms open all day, in charge of the missionaries, where the heathen may learn of the true religion. A countryman entered one of these stations and had a long talk with one of the missionaries,—whom it was our pleasure to meet this summer. When he went home he was a Christian. Some weeks afterward the missionaries received a letter from him. He wrote: “We have here a church, Sabbath-school, prayer-meeting, etc., all composed of one member. I get along nicely, except for the Communion Service. And if you could send me by mail a bit of the bread you use could I not have a service all by myself?” The bread was sent, and some time later the convert wrote back how much he enjoyed the Communion Service, all alone, with Jesus.

THE young people of a certain church in the West, had a chance not long since to give an object lesson and did it well. One of their number who had been long absent from home, soon after her return, made an entertainment for her friends; delightful music was to be expected, and some other enjoyments of a special character. The invitations were sent out for Friday evening; to the lady’s disappointment, one, and another and another, of those whom she specially wanted, politely declined the invitation; they were sorry not to be with her; under other circumstances nothing would give them greater pleasure, but for that evening they had a previous engagement. On being pressed as to what it was, they explained that it was the evening for their regular young people’s prayer meeting! Their friend was so astonished at this reply, that she took some trouble to learn whether the young ladies had known of one another’s intentions in declining her invitation, and found that each had acted without knowing what the other meant to do. Don’t you think she must have decided that in the minds of some people the prayer meeting was an important place, and the engagement to attend it was not to be lightly broken?

MERRY CHRISTMAS to all my Blossoms! Glad am I to be able to give you this happy greeting once more. And to the many new faces which I greet for the first time, the wish is just as hearty; may each of you have this month, not only the merriest, but, in the truest sense of the word, the best Christmas you ever enjoyed in your lives.

Shall I tell you how to make sure of this? I dare say you know, but I will just repeat the thought to keep it before your minds. In the first place, let each of you make a Christmas gift, very costly and very precious, to the best friend you have. Now I see many sorrowful faces, and hear low, regretful voices: “You would like to, but you have no money to spend, or at best but very little, and cannot afford anything costly.” Is that what I hear you say? Mistaken, every one of you. The most costly and precious thing in the world, is the strong true heart which has its home in your body, my boy—or my girl. I want you, this Christmas month, to give it away to the Lord Jesus Christ.

No matter if you have done it before. I am glad to know that many of you have. Just renew the gift. Choose some quiet hour, and go alone, and, on your knees, say: “Lord Jesus, I give myself anew to Thee, in return for Thy great Christmas gift to me. I give Thee my time, and my strength and my will. I ask Thee to direct me all day, and every day, in the way in which Thou wouldst have me go. And I promise to use my tongue to speak for Thee, and my hands to work for Thee, and my feet to do errands for Thee, and my heart to love Thee.”

I wonder how many will use this prayer, and mean each word in their hearts? Just so many will be sure to have a happy Christmas, and a happy year.

One other thing: Some of our Blossoms have been transplanted during the year that is past. God has sent his angels and gathered them to bloom in His upper garden, where flowers never wither. Now, while we are glad for them, shall we not remember the homes from which they have gone? The dear fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters, who cannot, sometimes, keep the tears from coming, because they miss their darlings so? Will not every Pansy Blossom ask the dear Lord to help and comfort these sorrowing hearts?

Now, just one thing more: What can you do on Christmas Day which will make somebody else happier than he or she could possibly have been if you had not done it?

Think it out, my Blossoms, “something for each of you now to do.” Then, set to work and do it; then write and tell me all about it, and I’ll weave all your letters into a story for next year’s PANSY.

Lovingly, PANSY.

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_Annie and Florence._ No doubt your game, “Jack Throws,” is a good one but as it has a diagram, and as our printer cannot always prepare such, it may fail to appear. Sorry.

_Alice L. Snow._ Send a copy of your Queer Story for examination. You did capitally on the geographical puzzle. “A Christian since eleven years of age.” So glad I am of this. I trust the Saviour is glad, too. Is it your constant aim to make Him glad?

MYRTIE A. B. Your Queer Story almost, not quite, correct. Don’t be discouraged. The effort has done you great good, making you a better speller. And you don’t have to go “three miles” to the Queer Story school. You must teach your puss better manners when you are working at your lessons.

_Mamie Fuller._ You must keep some of the writing you do now while you are six years old, and put it by the side of what you do when you are sixty. I guess you will see great progress. And I hope you will come very near the Lord Jesus in that time.

_C. R. Richmond._ A picnic in a beautiful grove; five hundred present; a brass band; oranges, ice-cream, lemonade; talks by Revs. King and Adams; a bountiful dinner following, etc., etc. It seems as though Master Colin and his companions must have gone home with sunny hearts and faces, and in love with the S. S. Did you?

_Minnie Locket._ When a dear little Pansy writes as well as ever he or she can, they need not ask me to excuse their penmanship or anything else about the writing. All I care to know is that they do their very best. No one can do more, and so there is no room for an excuse. Do your best, Minnie, every time, and you will not be ashamed.

_Jessie P. Davis._ Whenever your PANSIES fail to come, write to D. Lothrop Co., 32 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass. Do not think that any Pansy can be so small as not to be missed. The baby is the smallest body in the house. Don’t you think it would be missed?

_H. C. Withey._ The monkey game you send must be very funny, but its length and the difficulty of “doing” it here will explain why it does not appear in the PANSY. Perhaps you will try again, and send something very short and easily played. The Pansies will be interested in anything of that sort from Africa.

_Lolo Keeling._ Don’t despair whatever may come. Carry your failures to Jesus. Try again. Triumph will come.

_M. Nellie Lindsey._ Thank you for remembering to write to me many times, even if you did “forget to send them off.” And what in the August magazine pleased you so much besides that letter?

_Fannie W. Ambler._ Let me commend you for plain writing. The Queer Story is well done, though with some mistakes. Try again, my dear.

_M. Lillie Read._ Your Queer Story is much like Fannie’s, almost, but not quite, right. Never mind; there’s another for you. Don’t be afraid of it. Don’t be cast down over any failure, but up and at it again. Train the baby to be a true Pansy. I’m so glad you make any progress.

_Nellie Wright._ “Nine years old.” Said and done a thousand things or more in that time. Now, suppose you live to be ninety,—my dear uncle has just died at ninety-two,—and you keep on saying and doing, then how many thousand will it be? But all the better if it be all for Jesus’ sake. I like Florida, and you must like Kansas, which gives you “lots of corn and fruit.”

BIBLE READING FOR DECEMBER.

(_Christ._)

Dec. 1. Ps. xxiv: 7-10; 1 Cor. ii: 8. “ 2. Mi. v: 2; Matt. ii: 3-6. “ 3. Is. lx: 6; Matt. ii: 7-12. “ 4. Hos. xi: 1; Matt. ii: 13-15. “ 5. Jer. xxxi: 15; Matt. ii: 16-18. “ 6. Is. xi: 2 and xlii: 1; Matt. 3: 13-17. “ 7. Is. ix: 6; Luke ii: 11. “ 8. Is. liii: 4; Matt. viii: 16, 17 “ 9. Is. liii: 5; 1 Pet. ii: 24. “ 10. Is. liii: 7; Matt. xxvii: 12-14. “ 11. Is. liii: 9; Matt. xxvii: 57-60. “ 12. Is. liii: 10; Luke iii: 6. “ 13. Matt. iv: 18-22. “ 14. Matt. iv: 23-25. “ 15. Matt. ix: 18, 19, 23-26. “ 16. Matt. xi: 25-30. “ 17. 2 Cor. v: 14, 15, 17. “ 18. Rom. viii: 1, 2, 17, 18. “ 19. Rom. viii: 35, 37-39. “ 20. Rom. xv: 1-3. “ 21. Rom. v: 1-2. “ 22. Rom. v: 7-9. “ 23. John xviii: 33-40. “ 24. Luke ii: 8-14. “ 25. Luke ii: 15-20. “ 26. John xix: 1-7. “ 27. John xix: 8-12. “ 28. John xix: 13-16. “ 29. John xix: 17-22 and xx: 31. “ 30. Mark xvi: 19; Lu. xxiv: 51; Acts i: 9. “ 31. Acts i: 10, 11; Matt. 24: 42-46.

EXTRACTS FROM PANSY LETTERS.

DEAR PANSY:

From a tiny child, May, if told to do anything, would do it just a little differently. If told to put a thing on the table, she would say, “I dess will put it on lounge,” and when I answered, “No; on the table,” she would skip along, laughing, “I dess will put it on chair.” But doing a little differently from mamma’s way and God’s way will end in many a heartache Pray that mother and child may yield impliably to the dear Father’s will.

MAY and her MAMMA.

P. S. May sends six cents for the organ, earned by washing and wiping dishes.

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DEAR PANSY:

This is one of my compositions:

A PAPER OF NEEDLES.

First, a coil of steel wire, twenty-four inches long. This cut through the middle by scissors into little curved bundles, long enough for two needles. Straighten and point them—on a grindstone. They are pointed at both ends. They must now have their eyes opened. Needles, like puppies and kittens, are born blind. They are stamped with a heavy die that leaves the print of two needles’ heads and eyes at the center of the wire. Then the eyes are opened with a double punch.

HARRY B. HAYES.

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DEAR PANSY:

My fault is that I am ready to give, but not to take advice. I am president of a society. One member chooses another to write about; others read or recite selections. I attend Shurtleff Grammar School.

NELLIE F. TREAT.

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DEAR PANSY:

When I read answers to letters, it seems to hit me. I will try to be more patient with brother and sister. I am a church member, and I very much wish my cousin were. It is hard sometimes to talk about Christ. I talk about other things readily. Why?

BLANCHE E. TREAT.

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DEAR PANSY:

As to how we spend our evenings: we play games and speak pieces, and we have lots of books and papers. We like THE PANSY. Papa got THE PANSY for us and we did not know it till we got the mail. Mamma gave us “Young People at Home,” which you wrote, and which we like much. _Maud_ and _Mabel Davis_, my sisters, are writing; so I thought I would. Mamma does not like to have me tease my little brother Romie. I will try not to do so.

ALICE.

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DEAR PANSY:

Badges received in time to organize. They are lovely. They will help us to remember our faults. We meet at each other’s homes weekly and read, sew, sing, pray, and play THE PANSY games. “Monteagle” is splendid. Hope the trip will help Dilly get well, and she will help naughty Hart get better. What a good woman Mrs. Hammond is to have such a bad boy. I guess he’ll come out right.

MABEL S. KAGEY.

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DEAR PANSY:

I send a small sum for the organ. I sent sixty cents to D. Lothrop Company, and received “A Girl’s Room.” I would not part with it for twice that. Every girl should have it. The book gives me an idea what to do with things. I am much interested in “Around the Family Lamp.”

EMMA FISK.

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DEAR PANSY:

Our mission band is “The Cheerful Givers.” Mrs. Prof. Jewett is the teacher. She is nice. We like her—at least I do, and we all think the others ought to. We have mite boxes to put our pennies into, to buy maps of the world. I am not failing to mind my badge.

MABEL HICKS.

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DEAR PANSY:

I am eight and cannot write well. I tried last week. The words were hard to spell. I got tired. Tears came, so did mamma, and said, “Wait, I will help you.” I have taken your paper since I was a bit of a girl, and love it, and can hardly wait till it comes.

I have many, many, many naughty traits. Send me a badge. It may help me. Mamma and my good auntie read THE PANSY to me, and they enjoy it as much as I. Papa died before I was three years old. I want to be good “For Jesus’ sake.”

ANNIE T. DANA.

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DEAR PANSY:

Your answer to my last did me a world of good. I have it in my album, as one of my most precious treasures. I’m determined to grow up a useful Christian woman—thanks to the “Whisper Motto” and the influence of PANSY and my mother. Mamma has no ambition for her children but that they become genuinely good. When we are determined to be so, she wishes us to join some church. There are six, and as merry and happy as the “Little Peppers” of whom dear Margaret Sidney wrote so sweetly.

BLANCHE CRAWFORD.

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DEAR PANSY:

I enclose five cents. I earned it for the organ fund by learning the multiplication table.

MINNIE LOCKWOOD.

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DEAR PANSY:

We have almost finished a bed-quilt and are making holders to sell; in that way to raise money to buy cotton and lining. Every week a word is given out. We learn a Bible verse with that word, to repeat at the next meeting.

GERTIE CURRIER.

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DEAR PANSY:

Please print my letter, as it is the first I have written to any paper. I got a good many Christmas gifts, among them a canary. I named her Soldie. I want to join the P. S. My fault is getting angry. I mean to try real hard and break that horrid fault. I would like a badge. I think you are real lovely. I would like to see you. I am your constant reader and loving little friend. No one helped me about my story.

ELIZA W. HOLLAND.

ELIZA’S STORY.

(_Ella’s Lesson._)

Ella Smith was six years old. Her mother told her to take care of the baby while she went up street. Ella went into her mother’s room for the baby. The bureau drawer being open, she thought she would take a peep. Naughty Ella! in it lay three large oranges. How good they looked! She said to herself, “I will just touch them.” They felt so mellow she took two large bites. When her mother came, she punished Ella. Never did she peep into her mother’s drawer again.

DEAR PANSY:

I am trying to overcome my fault, which is putting off, and not starting the moment I am spoken to. I like the whisper motto. I have your picture and think very much of it. I have a pansy bed, and when I look at it, it makes me think of the Pansy Society.

ULA COOK.

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DEAR PANSY:

I think the games published in THE PANSY are lovely. We children, this spring, in our yard, planted some seeds, and in three days they began to show themselves. We planted the seeds in June and now they have buds on them.

RITA E. BOARDMAN.

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DEAR PANSY:

I have five dolls, Mabel, Phœbe, Sallie, Mollie, and Nannie. I love Phœbe the best. I have had her almost two years. I have two cats, Mrs. Kitty Clyde and her son Tom. We have a dog, too. His name is Nero.

ROSALIE T. CANFIELD.

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DEAR PANSY:

Perhaps some of the Pansies would like to hear of my two little horned toads, about an inch and one half long. I have them in a wire-screen cage. I have a big black beetle in the cage with them, and they don’t seem to like him very well. I feed them with cornmeal and flies.

OLLIE CUTTER CLARKE.

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DEAR PANSY:

Thank you ever so much for the badge. I think it has helped me some, but I left it in Denver when I came to Leadville to spend the summer.

ORLENA BEGGS.

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DEAR PANSY:

I lend my PANSIES to my friends to read. I found ninety-eight mistakes in the Queer Story of August PANSY.

SADIE M. KNIGHT.

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DEAR PANSY:

Willie Hicks, a dear little fellow in Africa, six months only, has gone to his heavenly home. Each Angola station has its representative in Heaven; but with Melville Cox, we say, “Though a thousand fall, let Africa be redeemed.” My bed is a bamboo frame, a canvas cot laced to it, set on low horses. I am learning how to use tools. I want to make a desk and case for my little library. I have no PANSY books. If I had money they would be here soon.

HERBERT C. WITHEY.

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DEAR PANSY:

I walked in my garden to-day; Many wee faces looked up From their shady retreat. Some had eyes dark or blue; Some, curls of golden hue; Dressed were some in velvets rare, Or quaint, gay frocks, These babies dear. I asked them to come and live with me; Gayly they laughed, “Pansies are we.”

E. EDWARDS.

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DEAR PANSY:

I am so ashamed of myself I don’t like to write to you. I beg your pardon. I have not worn my badge much, and I have not written to you. It is all because I am so neglectful. I will try to wear my badge more.

MAMIE THOMPSON.

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DEAR MRS. ALDEN:

We have a beautiful location. Looking south, we see the little valley with Keiser Creek, like a thread, bright and clear; on either side, the rocky hills, with pines, separated by deep ravines. Away beyond the foot hills, overtopping all, is the Yellowstone or Snowy Range, lifting up their white tops on the hottest days, as if in derision. Rocks are everywhere. “The Rockies” are rightly named. Several miles down the river is “Pompey’s Pillar,” on the rocky face of which is carved the name of Wm. Clark, 1806, the explorer. Not far is the battle-ground, on which the gallant Custer and his men lost their lives by the Indians.

LUE J. ROSEAU.

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DEAR MRS. ALDEN:

The Carmans gave us a concert. The church was full. Every one was delighted. They stayed all night at our house and sang. So we had a free concert. It makes me think of an angel to look at Miss Nellie while she sings. Davie is such a sweet, manly boy. I wish there were more such boys. I don’t know of any. I like Mr. and Mrs. Carman, too. They are all beautiful singers. Davie is fourteen, and superintends a mission Sabbath-school. While reading Docia’s Journal, I decided for Christ.

EDITH M. HILLBRANT.

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DEAR PANSY:

When your kind letter came, Auntie Alice Ferree was here from Kansas City. She used to live in Greensburg, Ind., and knew you, and wishes to be remembered. I showed my badge to Gov. St. John. He sends kindest regards.

LENA PUGH.

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DEAR PANSY:

I counted one hundred and sixty-six mistakes in the Queer Story. I have written to ask you to write a letter and put it in THE PANSY. I could not find A Sevenfold Trouble, in one of the PANSIES. Call me Aurelia from Mass. There are so many Lizzies.

LIZZIE A. POTTER.

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DEAR PANSY:

I found one hundred and fifty-seven mistakes in the Queer Story. [Send a copy corrected.—Ed.] I have two pets, a bird and a kitten. The kitten is black, yellow, and white. Her name is Pansy. My bird is cardinal; his name, Mac. Good-by!

MABEL DYNAM.

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E. Smith’s letter, with badge, sent to Roberts, Ill., has returned.

A letter signed Jonnae J., 2617, Park Ave., St. Louis, Mo., received.

Henry P. Austin’s letter, sent to South Paris, Me., with badge, comes back.

S. H. Sterling writes from Philadelphia, Pa., without street and number.

The above persons should immediately write, giving full name, street, and number, and write very plainly.

THE QUEER STORY.

PRESCILA ALDON lived in a verry valuble pavilian in Tenessee. She was a buisy gerl, driveing her Shettling pones from hous too hous and carying lillies, raisens, robbins, rabits, aggs and menny other plesent an prety presants two sutch as wer in nead.

She wasent a fraid nuther off takeing a litle troubble whar thar was opertunity of makeing her nabours hapy.

She desided to oregonize a socity of Pansys. Consequensely she was going an comming hear an thare verry ofen and writeing leters, hopeing two recieve manny menbers like other socitys. She securred meny honary nembers two. So she ocupied herself til Febwary, wen the aniversary of the socity came. Then it was reccomended that the anniversity should be selebrated by an entetainment of adreses, resiting peaces, musec, bone fiers, ice creems, punkin pise and chickins and that all Pansys should ware thare bages and collors and that no teaseing or plaging boy be aloud too com til he promiced too lieve everry folt to home an bring towells and sope to cleen the durty dishes.

Sence sum wouldent concent, thay wer not permited two com. But the selebration was a grate sucess an Prescila was hapy.

[Mabel L. Thomas and Maude Lincoln have mastered the mistakes of the Queer Story.]

THE STENOGRAPH.

A CONTRIVANCE, by M. M. Bartholomew of New York, weighing about three pounds, costing forty dollars, about the size and shape of a man’s hand, with five different keys and a roll of narrow paper, something like a spool of silk, designed for “fast writing,” is the Stenograph; so named, because that is the meaning of the word in Greek.

This queer little creature can make its mark, that’s all. But it can do it so quickly and put it in so many different places and orders when its fingers are touched by wire and spry human fingers that it can write all your pen can write and do it in a fraction of the time, while the operator’s eyes are looking away into the face of the speaker whose words are being taken down.

Then, you can learn to “make it talk” in three months!

Suppose, now, some of you Pansies manage in some way to own a Stenograph and teach the dear to mind the moment you speak to it. It would be a delight to you to play upon it as upon your piano. Besides, it would probably make music for your pocket. There is money in it. You would be in demand at conventions and other places as a reporter of speeches and sermons. And you could command good pay, if you were a good stenographer.

Who knows but some of you will get your “bread and butter” by means of this queer little creature?

C. M. L.

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My darling, I feel sure papa would like this very book. It is the reason I selected it from a large number of others, to tell the Pansies about, because I thought of you and your dollar. A very pretty book in a deep maroon binding, with three hundred pages of reading matter, and all of it put in paragraphs so that a busy man, who has but a few minutes to read, can seize this volume, get some sweet and helpful thoughts from it, during the five minutes when he is waiting for the mail, or for the street-car, and then go on his busy way. Just the thing for your hurried papa, don’t you see? In fact the book belongs to a set, named “The Spare Minute Series,” gotten up for just such waitings as I have described.

“Would the book be ‘nice’ for you to read?”

Well, no, little girlie, I’m inclined to think it would be rather “grown-up” for you, because, you see, it was written to help your grown-up papa and mamma. There are bits in it that you would like; and your fifteen-year-old brother would often read words in it that would please and help him. I open the book at random, and find these words under the heading of “Courage.”

“After all, what would life be without fighting, I should like to know? From the cradle to the grave, fighting, rightly understood, is the business, the real highest, honestest business of every son of man.

“Every one who is worth his salt, has his enemies, who must be beaten, be they evil thoughts and habits in himself, or spiritual wickednesses in high places, or Russians, or Border-ruffians.”

Don’t you know your brother said, only a few days ago when he got cross and things went wrong, that he felt as though he should like to _fight_ somebody?

Here is his chance, with directions how to carry out his wish.

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Would it do, I wonder, to tell you a secret?

I mean you boys and girls who have read, and who love, “Grandpa’s Darlings?”

The truth is, this Grace Livingston is the very little “Gracie,” Grandpa’s own darling, who has grown up to be a young woman, and the first day she had a chance, she wrote this book, all about a queer, sweet, new Chautauqua; just to pay her “Auntie Belle,” for telling all sorts of funny things about her when she was Grandpa’s Darling.

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Prepared from AROMATICS and FLOWERS of agreeable perfumes, with Musk and Ambergris to impart permanence.

IT will last for years and the rose petals MAY BE RENEWED by adding those from native roses by the addition of one teaspoonful of salt to each quart of petals. The perfume may be intensified at any time by the addition of Cologne, Florida Water or Concentrated Extracts.

Fill into a rose jar, vase or bowl until the Pot Pourri comes within two thirds of the top. Adjust a cover, and when it is necessary to perfume an apartment remove the cover for ten or fifteen minutes.

PREPARED ONLY BY =THEODORE METCALF & CO.,= 39 Tremont Street, Boston.

=Sample mailed upon receipt of 25 cts. in stamps.=

=BOOK OF BEAUTIFUL SAMPLE CARDS.=

44 tricks in Magic, 800 Autograph Album Verses, 34 Amusing Games, 43 Ways to Make Money. All for a two cent stamp.

EAGLE CARD WORKS, CADIZ, OHIO.

This little organ has as much power as any single reed organ; with that excellent quality which characterizes the Mason & Hamlin Organs. It is successfully employed for private and public uses; even, in some instances, for the accompaniment of hundreds of voices.

A circular with about one hundred opinions of purchasers of this smallest organ will be forwarded to any one desiring it.

=PIANOS.=

Mason & Hamlin’s Piano Stringer was first introduced by them in 1882, and has been pronounced by experts the “greatest improvement in pianos in half a century.”

A circular, containing testimonials from three hundred purchasers, musicians and tuners, sent, together with descriptive catalogue, to any applicant.

=MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN AND PIANO CO., BOSTON, 154 TREMONT ST. CHICAGO, 149 WABASH AVE. NEW YORK, 46 EAST 14TH ST. (UNION SQUARE.)=

=941 HIDDEN NAME CARDS,= scrap pictures, puzzles, games, tricks, money making secrets, album verses, and the largest and finest sample book of new style cards ever issued. All for a 2-cent stamp. Steam Card Works, Station 15, O.

NEW TEMPERANCE PUBLICATIONS.

The National Temperance Society has published over 1,600 different publications upon every phase of the question, 154 of which are for Sunday-school Libraries. Over 250 first-class writers have contributed to their publication. Among the latest are the following:

=FOR SUNDAY-SCHOOL LIBRARIES.=

=A Made Man.= 308 pp. By J. McNair Wright =$1 25= =The Turning of the Wheel.= 322 pp. By Mary Dwinell Chellis =1 25= =Dave Marquand.= 357 pp. By Annette L. Noble =1 25= =The Story of Rasmus.= 338 pp. By J. McNair Wright =1 25= =Roy’s Wife.= 562 pp. By Mrs. E. J. Richmond =1 00= =Susan’s Sheaves.= 364 pp. By Mrs. C. M. Livingston =1 25= =Never Begin Series.= 4 volumes, 170 pp. each =3 00=

=MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS.=

=The People versus The Liquor-Traffic.= By John B. Finch. 12mo, 259 pp. Paper =$0 30=

Eleven great speeches of this eminent lecturer. A most severe, logical and unanswerable arraignment of the liquor-traffic, and a most convincing argument for Constitutional and Statutory Prohibition.

=Alcohol in History. A Prize Essay.= 12mo, 481 pp. By Richard Eddy, D. D. =1 50=

It embraces the historical, statistical, economical and political phases of the reform.

=An Hour with Mother Goose and Her Temperance Family.= By Mrs. Nellie H. Bradley. =0 25=

Embracing Recitations, Colloquies, Solos, Duets, Choruses, etc., by Mother Goose, Jack and Jill, Little Red Ridinghood, Old King Cole and “the rest of the family.” The notes of the music are given, and the entire entertainment will be found one of the best ever given. 32 pages.

=Readings and Recitations, No. 6.= By Miss L. Penney. 12mo, 120 pp. Cloth, 50 cents; paper =0 25=

A new and choice selection of readings and recitations, from the best writers and speakers. The best compilation ever made. Suitable for use in the schoolroom, the home, and at public gatherings.

=Rallying Songs for Young Teetotalers.= A splendid new song-book for Bands of Hope, Juvenile Temples, Loyal Legions, and all children’s organizations, containing a new collection of choice songs, glees, marching-songs, motion-songs, etc. Edited by Miss L. Penney, 64 pp. Per dozen, $1.50; single copies. =0 15=

=Mother Goose for Temperance Nurseries.= By Mrs. J. McNair Wright. 8vo, 68 pp. =0 25=

It consists of 31 songs or rhymes, with 31 beautiful illustrations and 31 wise sayings, for every day in the month, in the best style of Old Mother Goose. Every child should have a copy.

=National Temperance Almanac for 1888.= Filled with choice stories, handsome illustrations, shadow-pictures, puzzles, facts, figures, etc. 72 pp. =0 10=

=The Little Red Stocking that Hung at the Gate.= A Christmas Story. By Faith Wynne. 12mo, 72 pages =0 10=

=Christmas Temperance Service.= By J. N. Stearns. It gives responsive readings, recitations, music, etc. 8 pp., octavo, per hundred =2 00=

Address =J. N. STEARNS, Publishing Agent, 58 Reade Street, N. Y.=

=THOUSANDS OF THE BEST= =$38= =GOLD= =WATCH= =EVER MADE ARE SELLING IN OUR= =CO-OPERATIVE CLUBS.= =This is the Best, Cheapest, Most Convenient,=

And _=only=_ co-operative System of selling watches. The watches are American Lever Stem Winders, containing every essential to accuracy and durability, and have, in addition, numerous patented improvements found in no other watch. They are absolutely the only _=Dust and Dampproof Movements=_ made in the World, and are jeweled throughout with _=GENUINE RUBIES=_. The _=Patent Stem Wind and Set=_ is the strongest and simplest made. _=They are fully equal for appearance, accuracy, durability and service, to any $75 Watch.=_

Our Co-operative Club System brings them within the reach of every one.

=We want an active, responsible representative in EVERY CITY and TOWN.=

Heavy profits guaranteed on limited investment.

Write for full particulars.

The Keystone Watch Club Co. =P. O. Box 928, Philadelphia, Pa.=

REFERENCES:—Keystone National Bank, or any Commercial Agency.

_=AGENCIES:=_

=New York, N.Y.= =Chicago, Ill.= =Pittsburgh, Pa.= =Boston, Mass.= =Philadelphia, Pa.= =Detroit, Mich.= =Harrisburg, Pa.= =Denver, Col.= =Baltimore, Md.= =St. Louis, Mo.= =Wilmington, Del.= =Etc., etc.=

IS THE BEST GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU?

KEYSTONE DUST PROOF WATCHES

PAT REG

Adjusted 154019

PAT. DUST PROOF

PATENT PINION

PAT. S. W.

KEYSTONE WATCH CO.

=ARE= =THE= =BEST=

=BECAUSE= They contain everything essential to =Accurate Time Keeping= found in any watch, and in addition have the following important patented improvements, which appear =only in Keystone Watches:=

The =PATENT DUST PROOF= protects perfectly the balance and hair spring (the most delicate and vital parts) from damage, dirt and dampness.

The =Patent Compound Regulator= has absolutely no lost motion.

The =PATENT STEM WIND= is the =strongest= and =simplest= made.

The =Patent Dust-proof movements= are =free from all variations= caused by dirt or dampness; an advantage which no other maker does or dare claim.

This is the only Factory using =only Genuine Ruby Jewels= _in every grade_, and all Keystone Watches are made of the =best material=, and are =accurate time keepers=, under our own guarantee.

=For Sale on Easy Terms, in Co-operative Clubs at the Lowest Cash Prices, by=

The Keystone Watch Club Company, P. O. Box 928. Philadelphia, Pa.

CHRISTMAS CARDS BY MAIL.

=OUR CARD PACKAGES= for 1887 and 1888 are ready. The assortment is unusually large and fine, embracing the best cards that can be obtained. These packets will be found the most =wonderful bargains ever offered=. We advise early orders, as many will certainly desire to re-order.

We will send a complete set of the first =six= packages for =$3.50=, and 40 cts. for postage and registering, and of the complete =9 sets= for =$5.00=, and 50 cents for postage and registering.

=No. 1.—For 50 cents and four cents for postage: 17 of L. Prang & Co.= and other fine Christmas Cards, together with a Double Fringed Card and a handsome Birthday Card.

=No. 2.—For 50 cents and 4 cents for postage: 10= large and finer Cards from the above Publishers, also, a Fine Frosted Card and a folding card cut in form of Sheaf of Wheat.

=No. 3.—For $1 and 6 cents for postage:= A choice selection of 25 Beautiful Cards, of =L. Prang & Co.’s=, also a souvenir booklet and a Hand-Painted Card.

=No. 4.—For $1 and 8 cents for postage:= A selection of =10= of our Largest and Finest Cards, together with a Beautiful Four Folding Calendar for 1888, by L. Prang & Co.

=No. 5.—For $1 and 10 cents for postage: 10 Double Fringed Cards= (not folded), each in a separate envelope, together with a fine Folding Fringe Card, and a handsome Satin Card.

=No. 6.—For 25 cents and 2 cents for postage: 10 Prang’s, Tuck’s, Ward’s=, and other beautiful cards.

=No. 7.—For $1 and 8 cents for postage: 4 beautiful Folding Cards and 4 Souvenir Books=, with appropriate selections from best authors; retail price, 25 and 50 cents each, and an enlarged Lithographic Card of the above cut by L. Prang & Co.

=No. 8.—BIRTHDAY PACKET. For 50 cents: 17 Fine Cards of Prang’s or Tuck’s.=

=No. 9.—SUNDAY SCHOOL PACKAGE. For 50 cents: 20 Cards, of Marcus Ward’s, Prang’s Cards=, assorted.

STAMPS OR POSTAL NOTES RECEIVED.

=Hand-Painted Cards, Pearl Cards=, and other Novelties at =10, 15, 25, 50, 75 cents and $1= each, for Christmas, Birthday, or Anniversary, which will be selected with care for different tastes and ages as specified.

=Chromo lithograph Cards by Prang & Co.= of the above cut and verse, with companion cards, per doz., with one booklet, postpaid, $1.

TO TEACHERS ONLY.

=50 Marcus Ward’s, Prang’s,= and other beautiful cards, no two alike, for =$1= and =8= cents for Postage, Better Assortment, =$2= and =10= Cents for Postage. A very choice selection, no two alike, =$3= and =20= Cents for Postage and Registering.

_Every Packet will be sent in pasteboard Protectors, and heavy envelope wrappers, for safe transmission._

The above offers include our Easter Card Packets for 1888. These will be ready about March 1st. _Envelopes for mailing_ =12 cts= _for each packet._

LOWEST PRICES IN THE UNITED STATES.

=PAPER BY THE POUND.= We are the New England Agents for the =Hurlbut Paper Co.= (established in 1822), and manufacturers of the =Beacon Hill Linen Paper= (no better or more elegant paper can be made). Selling direct from mills to the consumer, we are able always to give lowest possible prices. Sample sheets of paper and envelopes, with prices and number of sheets to a pound, sent on receipt of =15 cents=, and special prices to those taking orders for these papers with our card packets.

=POT-POURRI.= (=Rose Leaves.=) A preparation of =Rose-Leaf Petals= combined with the choicest =Oriental= perfumes, which will remain fragrant for years. Per box, size 3¼ by 4¾, postpaid =50 cents=. In fine Japanese Jars, securely packed and filled, price from =$1 to $5=.

=H. H. CARTER & KARRICK, 3 Beacon Street, BOSTON.=

=A BRACKET SAW OUTFIT FOR 30 CENTS.=

With this outfit any boy or girl can =MAKE MONEY=. With 10 cts. worth of wood, you can make articles that will sell easily for 75 cts. or more. You can =GET YOUR MONEY BACK= on the first article you sell. You can soon earn enough to buy a large foot saw, and then do business on a larger scale. You can make articles to beautify your home, and handsome presents to your friends. One of these outfits will not only prove profitable, but will give you

=HOURS OF FASCINATING PLEASURE=,

which would otherwise have been wasted. Persons who work during the day can make extra money by sawing a few minutes every evening. Send for an outfit and try it, you will never regret it. The Outfit consists of the following: =One Steel Bracket Saw Frame=, =Extra Saw Blades=, =1 Brad Awl=, =Copying Paper= for copying designs, =Sand Paper=, =1 Dozen Patterns= for making Easels, Match Safes, Wall Brackets, Card Baskets etc., =1 Pack Business Cards=, to give to your friends, and =Full Directions= for using. All packed in a neat box and sent by mail, post-paid for =Only= =Thirty Cents=.

P. O. Stamps taken =WORLD M’F’G CO., 122 Nassau Street, New York=.

=Just the thing for a Holiday Present.=

=——THE ENGLE SPRING GUN——=

_37 in. long._ _Steel Barrels._

=NO REPORT.= =NO EXPLOSION.=

The Simplest and Best in the Market.

The Barrel of each Gun contains 25 Projectiles.

One =GUN= and 125 Projectiles will be sent postage paid to any part of the United States for =$1.65=.

=ENGLE SPRING GUN CO.=, Mention this paper. Hazleton, Penn’a.

A descriptive Circular and a Projectile sent on receipt of a two-cent stamp.

The Finest =Powdered Chocolate= for family use. _Requires no boiling._ =Invaluable for Dyspeptics= and =Children=. _Buy of your dealer or send =10= stamps for trial can._ =H. O. WILBUR & SONS=, Philadelphia.

=FUN CARDS=, set of Scrap Pictures, 1 checker board, & large Sample Book of Hidden Name Cards, & agents’ outfit, 2 c. Capital Card Co., Columbus, O.

=AN ELEGANT=

CHRISTMAS PRESENT,

=for $1.00.=

For ten times the cost you cannot get anything that will please and educate the children and yourself like

=THE WORLD’S EDUCATOR=;

OR

EDUCATIONAL TOY AND GAME.

A Perfect Treasure-Box.

FULL OF FUN. FULL OF INSTRUCTION. FULL OF SOLID AMUSEMENT.

=WIT! WISDOM! WONDER!=

For sale everywhere or sent prepaid by the manufacturers, on receipt of $1.25. Send for full descriptive circulars. Agents wanted. Mention this magazine.

=W. S. REED TOY CO.=, =Leominster, Mass., U. S. A.=

_Pat. in U. S. and Gt. Britain._

For sale in Boston by

HORACE PARTRIDGE & CO., RICHARD SCHWARZ, HEYER BROS., PEABODY & WHITNEY, and all other Toy Dealers.

=PICTURES TO PAINT.= Ten outline pictures, with directions for mixing colors and for painting, sent to any address on receipt of =10c.= by S. W. TILTON & CO., 29 Temple Place, Publishers, Boston.

=DRESS STAY.=

Soft, Pliable and _Absolutely unbreakable_. Standard Quality, =15= cents per yard. Cloth covered, 20 cents. Satin covered, 25 cents. For sale everywhere. Try it.

UNRIVALLED IN TONE. ELEGANT IN FINISH. REASONABLE IN PRICE.

_Fully Warranted. Ill’d Catalogue Free._

=ESTEY ORGAN CO.=, BRATTLEBORO, - - - VERMONT. 159 Tremont St., Boston.

IF YOU WEAR =PANTS=

Send 6 cents for samples, rules for measurement, and other particulars showing how we make

=The Celebrated=

=BAY STATE PANTS=

FOR $3.

Vests, $2.25, Coats, $8, and OVERCOATS, at popular prices.

With our 20 years’ experience in this business we can furnish you with the best goods in the latest styles. Satisfaction guaranteed. Reference—American Express Co., Boston. _We want a trial order._

=BAY STATE PANTS CO., 30 Hawley St., Boston, Mass.=

=THE WORLD TYPE-WRITER makes a BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAY PRESENT.=

NO HOME Should be without One.

=No. 1 Japanned=, =$8.00= In Pine Box.

=No. 2 Japanned=, =$10.00= In Leather Box.

=No. 3 Full Nickelled=, =$15.00= In Black Walnut case, Satin and Plush Lined.

Correspondence will be rendered pleasant by the use of this practical and ornamental machine, while the young folks may improve their knowledge by practicing on an instrument so simple and yet so strong that no amount of hard usage will injure it.

Send for _Book_ and Circulars. =GEORGE BECKER & CO., 30 Great Jones St., New York.=

THE LEGEND OF CEREALINE.

“And they called the women round them, Called the young men and the maidens To the harvest of the corn fields.”

MERRY were the gladsome huskers, For they knew the corn they gathered, In the pleasant days of autumn Would sustain their lives through winter. So they sang a song together, All the young men and the maidens, Sang the praises of Mondamin And his Grecian sister Ceres. Thus they sang in measured chorus: “Honor be to brown Mondamin; Honor be to ancient Ceres; Honor to the noble Red-man; Honor to the wiser White-man Who hath built in Indiana Mighty mills to make the magic Cerealine, the Flakes nutritious, Food of foods, the precious essence Of the life blood of Mondamin, That shall give to every eater Health, and strength to think and labor. Haste the day when all the people Shall enjoy at each day’s banquet, Cerealine, the food ideal.”

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=The series of twelve original pictures, illustrating “Hiawatha’s Fasting,” of which the above is a small example, will be mailed to any one who will mention where this advertisement was seen and enclose a two-cent stamp for postage to the Cerealine Mfg. Co., Columbus, Indiana.=

=“Cerealine Flakes” for sale by all grocers at twenty cents a package.=

BUBBLE PARTIES.

ONE of the most amusing, as well as easily arranged entertainments for the Holidays, is a “Bubble Party.” Twenty or more ladies and gentlemen, enough clay pipes so each will have one, three or four bowls of soap-suds, and, say, half a dozen trifles, for prizes, are all that is required, the prizes to be awarded to those who blow the largest bubbles, one of the party to act as referee.

The suds should be of IVORY SOAP, as it gives a clean, white, and abundant lather, with an entire freedom from oil or grease; and as the materials of which it is made are so clean and pure, it is not at all offensive to the smell or taste, like ordinary soap.

A WORD OF WARNING.

There are many white soaps, each represented to be “just as good as the ‘Ivory’;” they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of the genuine. Ask for “Ivory” Soap and insist upon getting it.

Copyright 1886, by Procter & Gamble.

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Transcriber’s Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

Ad on “Etching,” “addresss” changed to “address” (free to any address, on)

Page 35, word “it” added to text (reason why it worked)

Page 53, “nncontrollable” changed to “uncontrollable” (an uncontrollable appetite)

Pansy Corner and Pansy Advertiser:

Page 3, “lii” changed to “liii” (Is. liii: 10)

Page 6, “Thuogh” changed to “Though” (Though a thousand fall)

Page 7, “minntes” changed to “minutes” (the five minutes when)

Page 9, “A HESIVE” changed to “ADHESIVE” (STRONGEST ADHESIVE KNOWN)

Page 11, “diquisition” changed to “disquisition” (a disquisition by philosophers)

Page 13, “vegntable” changed to “vegetable” (purely vegetable compound)

End of Project Gutenberg's The Pansy Magazine, Vol. 15, Dec. 1887, by Various