[Illustration: HORTON’S MAGIC SLATE CLEANER PAT’D FEB. 22, 1887] A wood water-bottle with a valve in the cork and a sponge on the side. You touch the slate with the point and let out a drop of water. Then the sponge. * * * * * [Illustration: PLAIN POCKET LIFE SIZE. CAW’S PEN] Caw Stylographic Pen. Price $1.50; for $1.75 in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents. To one who writes much a stylograph is a great convenience. It is really an ink-pencil. There are many makes. The Caw is the simplest; very likely the best, for dealers say that nobody finds any fault with it. * * * * * [Illustration] Ladies’ gold pen with pearl holder. Price $2.25; for $3.00 in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents. * * * * * [Illustration] Gold-plated pencil. Price 50 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. * * * * * [Illustration] Gold-plated pencil watch-charm. Price 50 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. * * * * * Perfection Hammock—and the hammock is as good as its name—knotted all through and does not slip; soft, elastic, abundantly strong, with galvanized iron rings at the ends. A perfect hammock. [Illustration: BAY STATE HAMMOCK “PERFECTION”] Number Size Price in money Price in new subscriptions Postage A1 5x14 ft. $4 $5 $0.60 1 4½x13 2.50 3 .60 2 4x12 1.75 2.50 .40 3 3½x11 1.50 2 .25 4 3x11 1.10 1.50 .20 There is as much difference in hammocks as in “easy” chairs. Some are anything but easy. Nobody knows how easy a hammock can be till he has gone to sleep in this Perfection. * * * * * Hammock-spreader. Price 35 cents a pair; for 50 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 25 cents. A hammock is twice as good with a spreader. * * * * * There is an outside door-mat so good that every civilized door where muddy feet have to come—there are thousands of such—will have it sooner or later. And one is enough; for it lasts forever. There is nothing else a tenth so good. It almost keeps itself clean. A jar dislodges the worst and thickest of mud. [Illustration] The Hartman steel-wire mat. An open springy texture of wire to scrape on—galvanized spring-steel wire—no rust, no wear—like a wire mattress but thicker and closer. You scrape on it, step on it, stamp on it, tramp on it fearlessly. The stickiest mud becomes innocent dust underneath and is swept away next morning. A pretty full account of it sent on request.