Produced by Louise Hope, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [This e-text comes in three different forms: unicode (UTF-8), Latin-1 and ascii-7. Use the one that works best on your text reader. --If “œ” displays as a single character, and apostrophes and quotation marks are “curly” or angled, you have the utf-8 version (best). If any part of this paragraph displays as garbage, try changing your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding”. If that doesn’t work, proceed to: --In the Latin-1 version, “œ” is two letters, but French words like “étude” have accents and “æ” is a single letter. Apostrophes and quotation marks will be straight (“typewriter” form). Again, if you see any garbage in this paragraph and can’t get it to display properly, use: --The ascii-7 or rock-bottom version. All necessary text will still be there; it just won’t be as pretty. Boldface text is shown with *asterisks*. The notation [->] represents the pointing-finger symbol. The layout of the advertising pages is shown after all text, along with a list of file names for major illustrations. Typographical errors in the original, whether corrected or not, are listed at the end.] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Vol. VIII.--No 25. May 21, 1887. GOLDEN DAYS For Boys and Girls Philadelphia: JAMES ELVERSON, Publisher. * * * * * [Transcriber’s Note: Text incorporated into advertising illustrations is shown in (parentheses); where necessary, a brief description of the illustration is given in {braces}.] * * * * * [Illustration] QUITE UP TO THE TIMES. _New Applicant_--Do I know how to use Sapolio? Well, that’s fresh! Do I look like a girl who don’t know about Sapolio? Am I blind, d’yer think, or can’t read? Why, the babies on the block know all about Sapolio. What are ye givin’ me? SAPOLIO is a solid, handsome cake of House-cleaning Soap, which has no equal for all scouring purposes, except the laundry. Perhaps you have heard of it a thousand times without using it once. If you will reverse the position and use it once you will praise it to others a thousand times. Ask your grocer for a cake, and try it in your next house-cleaning. No. 3. [Copyright, March 1887.] DYKE’S BEARD ELIXIR [Illustration: (Before After Before After)] For_es heavy Mustache, Whiskers, or hair on bald heads in 20 to 30 days. Extra Strength. No other remedy 2 or 3 Pkgs. does the work. We will prove it or forfeit $100.00 Price per Pkg. sealed and postpaid 25c., 3 for 50 cts., stamps or silver. SMITH MFG. CO., PALATINE, ILLS. $50 WEEKLY EASILY EARNED!