We pay premiums in good faith. We expect them to be earned in good faith. A subscriber may stop one magazine and become a new subscriber to another; but change of a magazine from one name to another in a family is not a new subscription. Your own subscription (if new) may count with others (not alone) for premiums. We have got to draw the line somewhere. We don’t reckon too closely, nor suspect bad faith too readily. We prefer to deal a little generously; but we don’t intend to be really imposed upon. [Sidenote: Direct to D. Lothrop Company] To be entitled to premiums you must send subscriptions direct to the publishers, not to another agent. We don’t pay twice for the same subscription. [Sidenote: Whose agent you are] You are entrusted with money for us by the subscribers you get. You are their agent, not ours. Be faithful to them. Send their names and money as soon as you get them. You are responsible to them till we get the names, addresses and money together. Then you are free. [Sidenote: When a subscription begins] Subscriptions begin at any time. If you neglect to name a date, we guess as well as we can. The volumes begin as follows: _Wide Awake_, December and June; _Chautauqua Young Folks’ Journal_, December; _Pansy_, November; _Our Little Men and Women_, January; _Babyland_, January. [Sidenote: Requirements] No deviation in prices; no credit (send name, address and money together); remit by post-office money order, by American Express Company’s money order, by registered letter or by bank check (postage stamps may be sent in registered letters for change); write plainly and fully; give subscribers’ full addresses (they may be different); sign your name and give your full address in every communication. The foregoing relates to premiums sent within the United States. [Sidenote: Beyond the United States] To the British North American Colonies other premiums have to be sent by express, the receiver paying whatever costs the tariff may impose; but magazines and books may be sent to these colonies by mail. There is a duty on books; not on magazines. [Sidenote: Premiums for sale] Things in the List are also sold for money, payment in advance, no discount, no charge for packing, sent at receiver’s cost and risk. [Sidenote: Delays] Wait for return mail and a week besides before you conclude your letter or our reply has gone astray; then write particulars: date of your sending, how you remitted, how much. [Sidenote: The first thing to do] The first step to take is to send us 15 cents for specimen copies of all five magazines, subscription blanks and other helps. D LOTHROP COMPANY PUBLISHERS OF BOOKS AND MAGAZINES BOSTON PREMIUM LIST OF THE LOTHROP MAGAZINES [Illustration] Jack-straws, two sets. Prices 25 and 50 cents; for 30 and 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents. One set contains more pieces and also more sorts—ladders, spades, hoes, mallets, arrows, etc., of variously-colored wood.