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3. of a New Year, I wish all of your Letters from Little Girls ClIETOPA, December 20, 1876. Mb. John B. Fast Learning A Department for Boys and Girls.

We appropriate this page to boys and girls, and if they do not take full possession of it I will write Borne for them, and so 1 will call their attention to that you are about to publish a paper and wish the boys and girls to write some. 1 will send you little readers a happy New Year. I am going to school, and Pa and Ma says I am learning very fast. I am studying reading, writing, spelling, geography and arithmetic. I am getting along well with them.

I have a sister Lula that goes to school with me. She is five years old and I am eight. Ma says I am not big enough to write, but I wanted to say some this letter, and it you think it worthy you may publish it. I am but a young girl. I have no father or mother, they are both dead.

All the family is dead but myself A 8CHOOJBOY ON CORNS. Corns are of two kinds, vegata-ble and animal. Vegetable corn grows in rows, and animal corn grows on toes. There are several kinds of corn There is the unicorn, Capricorn, corn dogers, field corn, and the corn yon feel most. hing to the young folks.

LlBBIE MlTCHEL. I like your letter, Libbie, first rate, I hope we shall have more from your pen. I believe that gophers like corn, and brother. I am going to school and like my teacher well. I think we have a good school.

You may put my name to the Y. F. N. Temperance Union. Olive Young.

I feel to sympathize with you, Olive. Oh, how uncertain life is. Be a good girl and the Lord will take cars of you. bat persons who have corns do not like ito go fur" "if they can help it. Corns have kernals, and Stop While You Can.

About three years ago I was Colonels have corns. Vegalable corn grows on ears, but animal in the habit of smoking. I smoked because the other boys did, Born grows on the feet at the never intending to keep up the Columbus, Jan. 1, 1877. other end of the body.

Another practice, or form a habit I could not easily break, thinking that at Me. Fast Bear Sir I understand that in the paper you are getting up you invite the boys and girls to write some. Well, kind of corn is the acorn these grow on oaks, but there is no hoax about the corn. The acorn is a corn with an indetinate article indeed try it and see, Many a man when he has a corn wishes it was an acorn. Folks that have corns sometimes send for a doc tor.

and if the doctor himself is a here it gqes JJust two years ago I saw you, for the first time, at a New Year's dinner at uncle Mark any time I could stop. One day, in carelessly looking over a paper, my eyes fell upon a short paragraph saying to those young men who used tobacco or strong drink, and who boasted that any time they could stop, to stop now, while they could, and be thankful that they could stop. The idea met my approbation, and, thank God, I stopped Should this meet the eye of any ies I saw you the next time at a protracted meeting you held in our neighborhood a month after ward. That was a real good meeting. My Pa and Ma and myself belong to the M.

E. church. little corned, he won't probably do as well as if he isn't. The doctor says corns are produced by wearing tight boots and Bhoes, which is probably the reason why, when a man is tight they bay he is corned. If a farmer manages well he can raise a good deal of corn on an acre, but I I joined the church three years person who is not a slave to to ago, when I was only ten years bacco or strong drink, but who can smoke one or two cigars a old.

"What can I want beside the Lord, Who can my heart such joy afford day or take a drink now and then, On his dear arm alone I lean, And in his company be seen, Thus in communion with the Lord, Shut from the world how sweet his word 1 When all's a wilderness around How blessed is the Gospel sound. Nancy Mitchel. I am glad, Nancy, that you be know of a farmer that has one corn that makes the biggest acre on his farm. The bigger crop of vegatable corn a man raises the better he likes it. but the bigger crop of corn he raises the better he does not like it.

An-other kind of com is the corn dodger. The way it is made is not intending to continue the practice through life, to them I say, Stop Stop now; and be thankful to your God that you can stop. It is a singular fact that thousands give their money, their time, their reputation, their breath, their health, their bodies, and even their souls, to these evil gan in so good a cause while so young. The Lord has promised great promises for those who seek very simple, and is as follows him early. that is if you want to know Yon go along the street and meet a man you know has a corn, and a rough character then you practices, merely for the sake of being thought more of.

Smoker, chewer, drinker, do you think more of yourselves for the vile practices in which you indulge If you do, you are the only one. "0 that men should put an enemy their mouths 10 steal away their brain Y. Witness. Columbus, Jan. 1st, 1877.

Dear Mr. Fast I understand that you are about to publish a paper, and have a department in it for the boys and girls; so I thought I would write you a few lines, and as it is the beginning step on the toe that you know has a corn on it. and see if yoi haven't occasion to dodge. In that way you will find oat what a corn dodger is..