1887 



GL EARNINGS IN KEK Cl/LTHKE. 



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Kvery boy or girl, under 15 

 years of age, who writes a 

 ■ this department, containing 

 SOME VAI.VABLE FACT, NOT OENBRALLY 

 KNOWN ON UKES OR OTHER MATTERS, 

 will receive one of l);iVid Cook's excel- 

 lent five - cent Sunday - school books. 

 Many of these boolis cimtain the same mat- 

 ter that you find in Sunday-school books 

 costing from SI. 00 to Ifl.UO. If you have had 

 one or more tiooks, pive us the names that we 

 may not send the same twice. We have now 

 in stock six different books, as follows; viz.: 

 Sheer Oft, The liiant - Killer, The Roby 

 Family, Rescued from Egypt, and Ten Nights in 

 a Bar-Uoom. We have also Our Homes, Part I., and 

 Our Homes, Part II. Besides the above books, you may have a 

 photograph of our old house apiar*', taken a great many years 

 ago. In it is a pictiire of myself. Blue Eyes, and Caddy, and a 

 glimpse of Ernest. We have also some pretty little colored 

 pictures of birds, fruits, flowers, etc., suitable for framing. 

 You can have your choice of any one of the above pictiires 

 or books for every letter that gives us some valuable piece of 

 information. 



COXDrCTED BY ERNEST H. ROOT. 



,3 



THE boys' amateur BEE-HIVE FACTORY. 



' RELIEVE I have not told you yet much 

 about Jimmie"s playmate. Sam. The 

 w two boys, as you may guess, were fast 

 -*■ friends. Their likes and dislikes were 

 much the same. Tliey botli were of a 

 mechanical turn (if mind— at least you would 

 think so if you were to take a look at Mr. 

 Green's barn and fences— little toy windmills 

 here and there, which they had made with 

 their knives. Besides these they whittled, 

 out of blocks of wood, boats that they were 

 wont to sail in a tub of water. Such waves 

 as those boats would standi The boy wdio 

 made a craft which would stand the most 

 sea (tub-waves) was the best fellow. Then 

 there was a great variety of other things 

 which they made, such as only tlie genius of 

 a boy can evolve, aided by his inseparable, 

 ever-ready companion, njacl'-knife. 



Mr. (Tieen, noticing the bent of their 

 minds, and desiring to encourage it as well 

 as to put it to some profitable use, entered 

 into a contract with old Santa Clans. The 

 terms of said contract, as drawn up by the 

 lover of little l)oys and girls, ran in thiswise: 



--OFFICE OF-- 



SANTA CLAUS. 

 -#PRESENTS:rFO»YS:^(SIGIRLS.#^ 



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 5>aniitcl <^)toc n ciii^ ^^ciiiic^ o^Jjoilmi, a cftc-^t 

 cj'' to..-<l^, .^ai^ »:t'ic.>l' to coiiiciiii ci joiiipfctc 

 ci.>>oi tiuo III oF t^c be^t tool.N. 



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Old Santa, even if he is old, you see writes 

 plainly enougli, even yet, for boys and girls 

 to read. .Jimmie's parents were too poor to 

 enter into any such contract witli Santa 

 ("laus in favor of their son. Sam's father, 

 however, tliougiit he could afford a chest for 

 his neighbor's son. both as a reward for reg- 

 ular attendance at Sunday-school, and be- 

 cause Jimmic Avas a boon companion of his 

 own son. 



I need hardly add, that the contract was 

 duly fulfilled at the day and hour, and that 

 the boys were re.ioiced— •' Just what we 

 wanted." tliey said. 



" "Where shall we have our shop?" said 

 they, on Christmas morning when they had 

 got together. " Oh! I know," said Sam ; 

 '' our old barn- loft will be just the thing." 



Thither the boys repaired, lugging along 

 their chests of tools. The loft had been 

 used for the storage of stray pieces of lum- 

 ber, stove-pipes, boots, etc. On 'their arri- 

 val they found cobwebs and a general litter. 

 Spurred by the thought of what a grand 

 place this" would be for a shop, the boys 

 soon had it cleaned up, — rubbish thrown oiit, 

 and the pieces of boards packedneatlyaway. 



When Jimmie was putting the last board 

 upon the pile in the corner, he exclaimed, 



" M> I whafs yer pa goin' to do with all 

 them boards':' Did lie say you might have 

 >mV" 



'• He hasn't said any thing about them yet. 

 They wei-e some that wei'e left from the 

 corn-cril), and we put them up here about a 

 year ago. Fll go and see if we can have 

 them." 



So saying, Sam clambered down the ladder 

 just in time to see his father, who was just 

 starting for town. 



•■ Say, pa, did you have any particular use 

 for those boards in the barn-loft?" 



" I declare, I had forgotten about those 

 boards. If Santa Clans did not say so, T be- 

 lieve he intended that they should be the 

 property of you boys," said Mr. Green, with 

 a twinkle in his eyes that Sam understood. 

 Sam needed no further hint, but hastened 

 back to the loft. 



'' Did yer pa say we might have 'em'?" 



" He did not say so in just so manv words, 

 but—" 



"•Good!" exclaimed Jimmie, who took in 

 the situation. •Won't we just have a picnic? 

 We'll make carts and windmills— big ones I 

 mean: l)y cracky! yes. and bee-hives!'' 



During the early part of the afternoon, 

 with .Mr. (Jreen's assistance, the boys made 

 a work-bench. When it was finished it was 

 discovered that they had no vise. 



I tell you. boys, said Mr. (ireen. at the 

 Home of the IIoney-Hees, Medina, Ohio, 

 they sell a very pretty little implement of 

 this description for only 15 cents. Hut how 

 can you get the money to purchase each of 

 you a vise? I liave a pile of wood which you 

 can put in the wood-shed, nights and morn- 

 ings, after school. If you will pile it all 

 nicely in the shed I will advance you the 

 money now. and you can send for the vises 

 to-day. 



' Let's do it now. and have the job off our 

 hands." said Jimmie. 



"We shall hardly have time," said Sam. 



