MARY FITHIAN.--For value of dollars see above. [Illustration: Ivory Soap] No other soap is found in so many homes. THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO., CIN'TI. GEO. F. CRANE, 90 Nassau St., NEW YORK, will pay cash for collection or scarce stamps. [Illustration] Books by Thomas W. Knox * * * * * THE "BOY TRAVELLERS" SERIES Copiously Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $3.00 per volume. ADVENTURES OF TWO YOUTHS-- IN THE LEVANT. IN SOUTHERN EUROPE. IN CENTRAL EUROPE. IN NORTHERN EUROPE. IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. IN MEXICO. IN AUSTRALASIA. ON THE CONGO. IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. IN SOUTH AMERICA. IN CENTRAL AFRICA. IN EGYPT AND PALESTINE. IN CEYLON AND INDIA. IN SIAM AND JAVA. IN JAPAN AND CHINA. _OTHER BOOKS BY COLONEL KNOX:_ Hunting Adventures on Land and Sea 2 vols. Copiously Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $2.50 each. THE YOUNG NIMRODS IN NORTH AMERICA. THE YOUNG NIMRODS AROUND THE WORLD. * * * * * There is, perhaps, no way in which young readers can become so truly familiarized with a country, in all its resources and capabilities, as by these books of Mr. Knox's.--_Boston Traveller._ Mr. Knox's pictures of mountains and rivers, forests and plains, of people and their customs, modes of life and government, can be marked as accurate. They are not fancy sketches, but actual facts gathered from personal observation and from reliable data.--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._ Boy readers have their own favorite authors, and among them Colonel Knox stands in a foremost place. He is a master of the art of adding to the solid facts of geography and history the leaven of boyish imagination, which makes the acquirement of information so agreeable to the mind in its formation period.--_Philadelphia Inquirer._ * * * * * Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York [Illustration: AN IMPERTINENT SPARROW.] "ON, KINGFISHER, HOW FARES YOUR QUEEN? THE QUEENFISHER, OF COURSE, I MEAN." * * * * * THE MAIN DIFFERENCE. "Jack the Giant-killer was a very different sort of a person from Jack of the Bean-stalk," said Wilbur. "One raised beans, but the other raised thunder." * * * * * CAUGHT IN THE ACT. "I'm goin' to tell my pa on you," said Johnny Smithers, as the blacksmith pared some of the bone away from the horse's hoof. "Why? What have I done?" asked the blacksmith. "You 'ain't got shoes to fit Dobbin, an' you're whittlin' off his feet to suit those you have got." * * * * * I love to read of Indian fights-- Fights big and rough and bloody, When they are told in story-books-- Not in the books I study. * * * * * LIKED THE NEW WAY BEST.