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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Mar. IS. 





The Funniest Book 

 of the Century 



"SAMANTHA AT SARATOGA; or 

 RACIN' AFTER FASHION." 



By JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFfi. 



Illustrated with Over 60 Drawings by F. Opper, 

 the Greatest Comic Artist in New York. 



Over 100,000 copies of the agents' edition in 

 expensive binding were sold at $2.50 each. This 

 premium eilitioii contains 374 pages, and gives all the 

 reading matter and all the illustrations the same fis 

 the copios which sold at $2.50 each. Over 200,000 

 copies of the premium edition have already been sold. 



THERE IS A BUSHEL OF 

 FUN IN EVERY CHAPTER. 



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This book was written under the inspiration of a 

 summer season 'mid the world of fashion at Saratoga, 

 the proudest pleasure resort of America. The boolc 

 talies off Follies, Flirtations, Low=neckcd Dressing, 

 Dudes, Pug=dogs, Tobogganing, and all the extremes of 

 fashionable dissipation, in the author's inimitable and 

 mirth=provoking style. 



' I woiiUl tear :» man iim' from lim' if I sec him a 

 tryiii' to flii't. witli you." 



Children and gi'own-up people alike read with rap- 

 turous delight the story of Samantha's "tower" to 

 Saratoga, accompanied by her "wayward pardner," 

 Josiah Allen. It is written in a vem of strong common 

 sense, as puro and innocent as the prattle of a child, 

 which keeps the reader constantly enjoying an ever 

 fresh feast of fun. 



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Woman's Home Companioned^ ^^e^ 



FORnERLY LADIES HOHE COnPANION.i 



This popular ladies' journal, now in its twenty-fourth year, is as readable and attractive as the best writers and 



artists can make it. It is an unrivaled high'Class magazine of general and home 



literature, profusely illustrated with exquisite drawings. 



Tlie Woman's Home Companion has no equal in the excellence of its special departments devoted to Fashions, 

 Fancy Work, Housekeeping, Floriculture, Talks with Girls, Hothers' Chat, Home Adornment, Children, etc. of llie 

 noted writers wlio will contiilmte tlieir liesl work to tlie columiis of llic ('om]iani<ni (hiring- the coming year we 

 liavn space to name only a few: Mrs. Mary J. Holmes, Josiah Allen's Wife, Opie Read, Harriet Prescott Spofford, 

 Julia nagruder, Hezekinh Butterworth, and many others. The Coniiianion {jives 24 to :!2 pages, size 1 1 liy li'> inclies, 

 each issue, jiriiitcd on line paper and jnit into a handsomely illustrated c<iver. Specimen co]iy free upon re(piest. 



To Boom Circulation We Hake tlie Following Liberal Clubbing Offer: 



SAMANTHA AT .SARATOGA, Agents sold them for $2.50 each, but say $1,001 

 THE A^IERICAN BEE JOURNAL (Weekly) One Year, Cheap at . 1.00 ! 

 WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION One Year, Equal to magazines costing 1.00 



Total in Value. . . . $3"0()J 



XOTHi:.- W/irii lluahoiT ojl, 



AS A SPECIAL OFFER, WE WILL SEND 



3 for $1.25 



NEVER WAS SO MUCH GIVEN FOR SO LITTLE MONEV. 



iirtt jifrd, noffiinini.s.sion irifi hi- <tU<»i-nl anil Ihf nonirs rinnifif hfcinfii/tit in tl '-/iih fuirtin! n pi 



Address GEO. W. YORK & CO., 118 Michigan St., Chicago, 111. 



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