Chapter I: Front Matter

GOLDEN DAYS

For Boys and Girls

Vol. XII--No. 6. January 3, 1891.

Philadelphia:
JAMES ELVERSON,
Publisher.

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[Transcriber's Note: The notation "->" represents the pointing-finger symbol. Text incorporated into advertising illustrations is shown in (parentheses); where necessary, a brief description of the illustration is given in {braces}. 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.]

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"BIRTH IS MUCH, BUT BREEDING MORE."
Where were you born that you DON'T use
SAPOLIO

SAPOLIO is a Solid Cake of SCOURING SOAP used for ALL Cleaning Purposes, except the Laundry.

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THE "MORSE" OUTFIT, $3.75.

Complete Outfit for learning Telegraphy, and operating Short Lines of Telegraph, from a few feet to several miles in length. Consists of full size, well made Giant Sounder with Curved Key Combination Set as above, together with Battery, Book of Instruction, insulated Wire, Chemicals, and all necessary materials for operating. Price $3.75. Sent by express upon receipt of amount by Registered Letter, Money Order, Express Order or Postage Stamps. Morse Pamphlet of practical Telegraph Instructions free to any address. J.H. BUNNELL & CO., 76 Cortlandt Street, New York. Largest and Best Telegraph Supply House in America.

MAGIC

LANTERNS WANTED AND FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE. HARBACH & CO. 809 Filbert St. Phila. Pa.

** The STAR BANJO **

Is made on entirely new principles and produces the most desirable QUALITY of tone combined with the greatest volume and carrying power, making it the finest instrument extant for stage or parlor use. PRICE LIST MAILED FREE. *LYON & HEALY, Chicago.*

*CIRCULARS* to young people only. Money for you. Address Novelty Typewriter Co., *Oswego, N.Y.*

[THIS IS NOT AN IDLE]

This company does not handle Farm Mortgages, but City Investments only. The WINNER COMPANY has paid its investors over Two Million Dollars in profits since 1883, without a single case of loss.

[TALE OF IDLE MONEY]

To be convinced of this send to WM.M. PARMENTER, 50 State St., Boston, Mass. for circulars explaining the business of the WINNER INVESTMENT CO. Mailed free to any address.

CARDS

Send 2c. Stamp for Sample Book of all the FINEST and Latest Style CARDS for 1891. We sell Genuine Cards, not Trash. UNION CARD CO., COLUMBUS, OHIO.

MAGIC LANTERNS

*And STEREOPTICONS*, all prices.

Views illustrating every subject for *PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS*, etc. -> _A profitable business for a man with a small capital._ Also, Lanterns for Home Amusement. 208 page Catalogue _free_. *McALLISTER*, Mfg. Optician, *49 Nassau St., N.Y.*

*WORLD'S* Fair Railway Puzzle. Lots of fun: sample 10c.; 3 for 25c. Morton & Co., Box 848, Chicago

*MINIATURE PHOTOGRAPHS 12 for 25c. Sample 2c.* Copied from photographs or tintypes, which WE RETURN. THE BARTHOLOMEW STUDIO, WALLINGFORD, CONN.

Advertising Rates for "Golden Days."

Single insertions, 75c. per Agate line. Four insertions, 70c. per Agate line for each insertion. Thirteen insertions, 65c. per Agate line for each insertion. Twenty-six ", 60c. per Agate line for each insertion. Fifty-two ", 50c. per Agate line for each insertion.

_Eight words average a line. Fourteen lines make one inch._

JAMES ELVERSON, Pubisher,
Philadelphia, Pa.

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STAMPS.

*STAMPS--ALL GENUINE!*

*100 Rare Varieties*

China, Nicaragua, Honduras. Old Japan and Egypt, Bosnia, Peru, Orange, Hawaii, fine old U.S., Interior. Treasury, P.O., War, etc., *with elegant Stamp Album, only 25c*. 100 assorted rare Mexico, Ceylon, Guiana, Turkey, Costa-Rica, etc., *only 10c*. *Large new 20 page Price-list, etc., FREE! AGENTS WANTED* at 33 1/3 per cent com. *STANDARD STAMP CO.*, removed to 923-925 Lasalle St., St. Louis, Mo.

STAMPS

We lead; others follow. We are the world wreckers on low prices. Ten-cent sets--3 Malta, 2 Montserrat, 5 Newfoundland, 2 Paraguay, 4 Dominica Republic, 2 St. Vincent, 2 Sierra Leone, 5 Straits Settlements, 3 Suriname, 2 Tobago. 40-page price list, 2c. New coin catalogue, 10c. E.F. GAMBS, Coin and Stamp Dealer, 4 Sutter Street, San Francisco, Cal.

STAMPS

100 all different, 10c.; 300 all different. $1.25; 500 all different, $2.25. price lists free. Agents wanted to sell stamps from my unequalled sheets at 33-1/3 per cent, com. Wm. E. Baitzell, 412 N. Howard St., Baltimore, Md.

300 Mixed, rare Australian, etc., 10c.: 75 fine varieties and *nice* album, 10c. Illustrated list free. Agents wanted, 40 p.c. com. F.P. Vincent, Chatham, N.Y.

STAMPS

Agents! Approval Sheets, 1-3d com. List free. Conrath & Co., 1334 Lasalle St., St. Louis, Mo.

STAMPS

Price list *FREE*. Approval sheets 50 per ct. com. E.A. OBORNE, Jamaica, New York.

STAMPS--Agents wanted for the _very best_ approval sheets at 40 per ct. com. *Putnam Bros., Lewiston, Me*

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15 CENT PACKAGE OF GAMES.

The Best Collection Ever Sold for
Four Times the Amount.

*Game of Authors*, 48 cards with directions. *Set of Dominoes*, *Chess Board*, with men. *Checker Board*, with men. *Fox and Geese Board*, with men. *Nine Men Morris Board*, with men. *Mystic Age Tablet*, tells age of any person. *The Beautiful Language of Flowers*. *Morse Telegraph Alphabet*. *The Improved Game of Forfeit*. *Parlor Tableau*, *Pantomine*, *Shadow Pantomine*, *Shadow Buff*, *The Clarivoyant*, how to become a medium. *Game of Fortune*, *The Album Writers Friend*, 275 Select Autograph Album Verses (new). *50 Choice Conumdrums or Riddles*, with answers (new). *Thirteen Magical Experiments*, *Eleven Parlor Games*, *Magic Music*, *Order of the Whistle*, *Game of Letters*, and many others.

To introduce our goods and get new customers, we will send the whole lot to any address, freight paid, on receipt of 15c.; 2 lots for 25c.; 5 lots, 50c. Stamps taken. *STAYNER & CO., Providence, R.I.*

CARDS

FINEST GOODS, LATEST STYLES, LOWEST PRICES, SAMPLES *FREE* LAUREL CARD CO., CLINTONVILLE, CONN.

*Will Do It.*

Our Beard Elixir will force a *Mustache* in 20 days. *Full Beard* in 30. Sample package, postpaid, 15c; 2 for 25c; one dozen, 75 cents. Agents wanted. WESSON MFG. CO., 5 E St., Providence, R.I.

USE BOILING WATER OR MILK.
EPPS'S
GRATEFUL--COMFORTING.
COCOA
SOLD IN LABELED 1/2 LB. TINS.

CARDS

NEW SAMPLE BOOK of Hidden Name, Silk Fringe, Gold, Silver and Tinted Edge Cards. The Finest ever offered for 2 cent stamp. NATIONAL CARD CO., SCIO, OHIO.

MAGIC LANTERN VIEWS FOR SMALL LANTERNS. COMIC, BIBLE SCENERY, NOTED PLACES SEND ONE CENT FOR NEW PRICE LIST CAEL BROWN 155 WASHINGTON ST., CHICAGO, ILL.

CARDS!

30 Samples *Free.* Jewel Co., Clintonville, Conn.

ASTHMA CURED

DR. TAFT'S ASTHMALENE never fails; send us your address, we will mail trial BOTTLE *FREE* THE DR. TAFT BROS.M. CO., ROCHESTER, N.Y.

WINTER PRICES ON BICYCLES

DEALERS DISCOUNTS OUTDONE.

Don't wait till spring, buy *now* and save big money. Easy payments, all makes, new & 2d hd. Extraordinary prices on job lots. Cata free. *Rouse, Hazard & Co., 84 G Street, Peoria, Ill.*

CARDS

LATEST STYLES, BEST PREMIUMS, -> COSTLY OUTFIT. *FREE* YALE CARD CO., NEW HAVEN, CONN.

100

Popular Songs, 32 complete Love Stories, 11 thrilling Detective Stories and large catalogue, all for 10c silver. *Handford & Co., Lincoln Park, N.J.*

I CURE FITS!

When I say cure I do not mean merely to stop them for a time and then have them return again. I mean a radical cure. I have made the disease of FITS, EPILEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS a life-long study. I warrant my remedy to cure the worst cases. Because others have failed is no reason for not now receiving a cure. Send at once for a treatise and a Free Bottle of my infallible remedy. Give Express and Post Office. *H.G. ROOT, M.C., 183 Pearl St., N.Y.*

PLAYS

Dialogues, Tableaux, Speakers, for School, Club & Parlor. Best out. Catalogue free. T.S. DENISON, Chicago, Ill.

THIS BINDER is light, strong and handsome, and the weekly issues of GOLDEN DAYS are held together by it in the convenient form of a book, which can be kept lying on the reading-table. It is made of two white wires joined together in the centre, with slides on either end for pressing the wires together, thus holding the papers together by pressure without mutilating them. We will furnish the Binders at Ten Cents apiece, postage prepaid. Address JAMES ELVERSON, Publisher, Philadelphia, Pa.

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Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria.

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DOCTORS RECOMMEND

Ayer's Cherry Pectoral in preference to any other preparation designed for the cure of colds and coughs, because it is safe, palatable, and always efficacious.

"After an extensive practice of nearly one-third of a century, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is my cure for recent colds and coughs. I prescribe it, and believe it to be the very best expectorant now offered to the people. Ayer's medicines are constantly increasing in popularity." --Dr. John C. Levis, Druggist, West Bridgewater, Pa.

"I have never found, in thrty-five years' practice, any preparation of so great value as Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for treatment of diseases of the throat and lungs, and I constantly recommend it to my patients. It not only cures colds and coughs, but is effectual in relieving the most serious bronchial and pulmonary affections." --L.J. Addison, M.D., Chicago, Ill.

->For croup and whooping cough, take

Ayer's Cherry Pectoral,

Prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by all Druggists. Price $1; six bottles, $5.

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FREE TO BOYS AND GIRLS UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE.

The WESTERN PEARL CO. will give away 1000 or more first-class safety bicycles (boy's or girl's style) for advertising purposes. If you want one on very easy conditions, without one cent of money for it. Address, enclosing 2 cent stamp for particulars, *WESTERN PEARL CO., 308 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO, ILL.*

SAMPLES 2c. World CARD Co. 47 Elder Cin'ti O.

PRINT Your Own CARDS and Advertisements!

Card Press, *$3;* Circular size, *$8;* Small Newspaper Press, *$22.* Fast 9x13 Jobber, *$100.* You can *SAVE MONEY* and *make big money*, too, by printing for others. _Fun for spare hours._ Type Setting easy by our printed rules. Send 2 stamps for large catalogue of presses, type, cards, paper, etc., direct to factory. *KELSEY & CO., Meriden, Conn*

GOLD PLATED PEARL SCARF PIN FREE

To introduce our Watches and Jewelry, we will send the above beautiful Scarf Pin free to anyone. Cut this ad. out and return to us. Large illustrated catalogue sent free with pin. *W. HILL & CO., Wholesale Jewelers, 11b Madison St., Chicago, Ill.*

100 NEW SONGS

(no 2 alike). 1 pk. May I.C.U. Home Cards. All the late flirtations, etc. 20 Fine Photos, large Ill. Cat., Lovers' Telegraph and 15 Versions of Love, all 10c. EASTERN SUPPLY CO. Laceyville, O.

Piso's Remedy for Catarrh is the Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest.

Sold by druggists or sent by mail. 50c. E.T. Hazeltine, Warren, Pa.

32 *COMPLETE* Love Stories, 11 Thrilling Detective Stories and 100 *Popular Songs*, postpaid, 10c. (silver). J. Roush, L. Box 615, Frankfort, Ind.

GOOD NEWS
TO LADIES!

*Entire New Departure. Handsome Present to every Purchaser.*

Greatest offer. Now's your time to get orders for our celebrated *Teas, Coffees* and *Baking Powder* and secure a beautiful Gold Band or Moss Rose China Tea Set, Dinner Set, Gold Band Moss Rose Toilet Set, Watch, Brass Lamp, Castor, or Webster's Dictionary. 3-1/2 lbs. Fine Tea by mail on receipt of $2. The Great American Tea Co., 31 and 33 Vesey St., New York. P.O. Box, 289

10 CENTS

(silver) pays for your address in the "AGENT'S DIRECTORY," which goes whirling all over the United States, and you will get hundreds of samples, circulars, books, newspapers, magazines, etc., from those who want agents. You will get lots of good reading free and will be *WELL PLEASED* with the small investment. -> List containing name sent to each person answering. *T.D. CAMPBELL, D 105, Boyleston, Ind.*

DO YOU PLAY CARDS?

No game complete without our *Patent Counters.* Scores any game. Send 10 cents for a pair. 30 cents buys fine pack Cards and 100 Poker Chips. *REED & CO., 84 Market St., Chicago, Ill.*

CATARRH CURED

I will send FREE to every reader of this paper a copy of the original recipe for preparing the best and surest remedy ever discovered for the permanent and speedy cure of Catarrh. Over one million cures in five years. Send your name and address to Prof. J.A. LAWRENCE, 58 Warren Street, New York, and receive this free Recipe. Write to-day. A Postal Card will cost you but

ONE CENT!!

30 New Style Cards, 275 Album Verses, 50 Conundrums with answers, slight of hand tricks, games and RING, 10 cents. Address HOME CARD CO., PROVIDENCE, R.I.

FUN

Game of Forfeit, with full directions, 275 Autograph Album Selections, 11 Parlor Games, 50 Conundrums. Game of Fortune. Mystic Age Table. Magic Music, Game of Letters. The new book, Order of the Whistle. Language of Flowers, Morse Telegraph Alphabet, Game of Shadow Buff and 13 Magical Experiments. All the above on receipt of 3 cents for postage, etc. Address, NASSAU NOVELTY WORKS, 58 & 60 Fulton St., New York. FREE

*SAMPLE BOOK* of Cards, 2c. Globe Co., Wallingford, Ct.

25c PRINTING OUTFIT

*A WHOLE PRINTING OUTFIT, COMPLETE AND PRACTICAL*, Just as shown in cut. 3 Alphabets of neat Type. Bottle of Indelible Ink, Pad, Tweezers, in neat case with catalogue and directions "HOW TO BE A PRINTER." Sets up any name, prints cards, paper, envelopes, etc. marks linen. Worth 50c. The best gift for young people. Postpaid, only 25c., 3 for 60c., 6 for $1. Ag'ts wanted. Ingersol & Bro., 65 Cortlandt St., N.Y. City.

4 CTS. 100 Assorted U.S. and Foreign Stamps 4 cents; 500, 18 cents; 1000, 33 cents HANDFORD & CO., Lincoln Park, N.J.

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THE DOLLAR TYPEWRITER

$1

THIS IS THE TYPE USED. ABCDEFGHI

A perfect and practical Type Writing machine for only *ONE DOLLAR*. Exactly like cut; regular Remington type; does the same quality of work; takes a fools cap sheet. Complete with paper holder, automatic feed, perfect type wheel & inking roll; uses copying ink. Size 3x4x9 inches; weight, 12 oz; Satisfaction guaranteed; Circulars free; *AGENTS WANTED.* Sent by express for *$1.00*; by mail, 15c extra for postage. *R.H. INGERSOLL & BRO., 65 CORTLANDT ST., N.Y. CITY.*

MOUTH ORGAN

Chart teaches a tune in 10 minutes. Agts. watd. 2c. stamp. Music Novelty Co., Detroit, Mich.

GUNS

Watches, Clocks, Etc. DOUBLE Breech-Loader $7.75 RIFLES $2.00 PISTOLS 75c

All Kinds cheaper than elsewhere. Before you buy, send stamp for Catalogue. Address POWELL & CLEMENT, *180 Main Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.*

MOTHERS

Be sure und use *"Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup"* for your children while *Teething*.

FORCE BEARD OR HAIR.
EITHER SEX. ANYBODY.

Prof. Dyke's Elixir has restored the hair on my head, when I was perfectly bald, J.T. Biggs, Bryan, Tex., Oct. 8. John Millard says, Prof Dyke's Elixir has produced a heavy moustache on my upper lip in 4 weeks. My face was entirely smooth. Thousands more

Prof. Dyke's Elixir grows the heaviest beard and hair in 4 weeks. Complete remedy, in bottles or metal cases, with the finest perfume known, for 25c, in stamps or silver. Worth four times this amount. We mail secure. Address *Smith Med. Co. Palatine. Ills.*

$25 A WEEK to LADY AGENTS

"Victoria Protector" and rubber goods for ladies and children. Victoria by mail $[**] Circulars free. Mrs. L.E. Singleton, Box 865, Chicago, Ill.

For boy or man, as an educator or as a source of amusement or income, at a small expense, get one of our

PRINTING PRESSES
JOSEPH WATSON,
25 Murray St., N.Y. City.

Specimen Book of type, [**] cents. Circular sent free.

Amateur Printers' Guide Book. 15 cents.

375 Plush Floral Silk Fringe cards, games, album verses, &c., Initial Handkerchief, Ring, Pocket Pen & Pencil & *Agents' Samples 10c. CLINTON & CO., North Haven, Ct.*

SEND 30 CENTS

in stamps for elegant *Concert Harmonica*, worth $1.00. Money refunded if not satisfactory. JOHN C. HAYNES & CO., 33 Court Street and 694 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.

100 SCRAP PICTURES & AGENT'S CARD OUTFIT 2c AND PRESENT FREE E.H. PARDEE, MONTOWESE, CONN.

PLAYS! PLAYS! PLAYS!

De Witt's AMATEUR and STANDARD PLAYS DICK'S LONDON ACTING EDITION OF PLAYS Complete Descriptive Catalogue of over 2000 Plays: Dialogues; Headings and Recitations; Charades; Tableaux; Pantomimes; Books of Games, Sports and Amusements, Athletics, Gymnastics, etc., etc., sent free on application to The De Witt Publishing House, 33 Rose St., N.Y.

OPIUM

Morphine Habit Cured in 10 to 20 days. No pay till cured. Dr. J. Stephens, Lebanon, Ohio.

BARNEY & BERRY

CATALOGUE
Springfield, Mass. FREE.

CARDS FREE

Send your name and address on a postal card for all the Latest Styles of Silk Fringe, Photograph, Envelope, Beveled Edge, Crazy Edge Cards &c., Samples of all free. HOME and YOUTH, Cadiz, Ohio.

ONLY DIRECTORY ON EARTH

Guaranteeing 50,000 Circulation. For 10cts. (silver) your name will be inserted and copy mailed you accompanied by positive proof that your name is sent to 50,000 Publishers, Advertisers, Mfgrs, and others, and from these you will receive hundreds, probably thousands, of valuable Samples, Papers, Books, Magazines, etc. ALL FREE. Always address AMERICAN DIRECTORY CO., Buffalo, N.Y.

Vernon Hill, Va.-- Gents: I have already received over 1,000 parcels of mail, scores of magazines, etc., for which I had often paid 25c each before. My experience proves your Directory far excels all others, as I find most of them are frauds and cheats. R.T. James.

FREE

SAMPLE CARDS. THE FINEST, CHEAPEST AND BEST. COSTLY OUTFIT FREE to all who will act as AGENT. Send 2c stamp for postage. U.S. CARD CO., CADIZ, OHIO.

DEAFNESS & HEAD NOISES CURED by Peck's INVISIBLE *TUBULAR EAR CUSHIONS*. Whispers heard. Comfortable. Successful where all Remedies FAIL. Ills. book & proofs free. Address F. HISCOX, 859 Broadway, New York.

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GOLDEN DAYS
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

(Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1891, by James Elverson, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C.)

VOL. XII.

JAMES ELVERSON, Publisher.
N.W. corner Ninth and Spruce Sts.

PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 3, 1891.

TERMS
$3.00 Per Annum, In Advance.

No. 6.

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RAILROAD ROCK,
THE TRAIN BOY OF THE PEN YAN

Or, Doing His Level Best.

by VICTOR ST. CLAIR,

Author of "Bayard the Bicyclist," "From the
Forge to the Forum," "Roughing It
on Range and Ranch," etc.