| The Thank-You Prayer | 27 |
| The True Pride of Ancestry. Webster | 28 |
| Endurance | 29 |
| The Old Man and Jim. James Whitcomb Riley | 30 |
| Why Are We Here. C. G. Dann | 31 |
| Rural Occupations Favorable to the Sentiments of Devotion. Buckminster | 31 |
| The Moonshiner’s Daughter. M. B. | 32 |
| The Baby’s Prayer. Mrs. E. E. Williamson | 34 |
| How He Got Rich | 34 |
| The Midnight Tryst. Mary E. Bryan | 35 |
| The Four-Leaved Clover. A Decoration Day Reminiscence | 37 |
| What is Religion? Bishop Heber | 38 |
| All Light There. Mrs. M. L. Rayne | 38 |
| On the Field of Gettysburg. Ena Walton | 39 |
| In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate! | 39 |
| Influence of Christianity in Elevating the Female Character. J. G. Carter | 40 |
| Would We Return? Robert Burns Wilson | 41 |
| The Rose. Mrs. Sigourney | 42 |
| Death | 43 |
| My Henry. James W. Riley | 43 |
| The Lock of Hair. Thomas Dunn English | 44 |
| Vita Nova | 44 |
| Description of a Death Scene. Miss Francis | 45 |
| St. Brigid | 47 |
| “To Many of We.” | 47 |
| Decoration Day. Minnie Irving | 48 |
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| Half-Way Doin’s. Irwin Russell | 3 |
| The Lady or the Tiger. Mayor Joseph Kirkland in The Century | 5 |
| Confidential | 6 |
| St. Jonathan | 6 |
| Shinbones Becomes an Umpire. W. J. Henderson | 7 |
| Uncle Ike’s Roosters. Aaron W. Fredericks | 8 |
| How “Old Mose” Counted Eggs | 9 |
| Trouble in the Choir. A. T. Worden | 10 |
| Who Makes the Soil | 12 |
| That Gentleman from Boston Town. Joaquin Miller | 13 |
| A Change of Views. W. Carey | 14 |
| The Story of Elizur. F. A. S. | 15 |
| Robin Hood and the Abbot. John Brook | 16 |
| Two Boot Blacks | 17 |
| A Reminiscence | 18 |
| Uncle Cuff “Rises Fur Ter ’Splain.” William Longfellow Haynie | 18 |
| The Canine Question. Alex. Sweet | 19 |
| The Setting Sachem | 20 |
| Asking the Gov’nor | 21 |
| The April Face. Thomas Nelson Page | 22 |
| Guilty, Of Course. G. Waldo | 23 |
| The Mosquito | 24 |
| Ode to the Full Moon. Allen Kelly | 24 |
| The Ballad of Hiram Hover | 25 |
| A Negro’s Account of the Prodigal Son | 26 |
| Don’t Shpoil Dot Leedle Fun. Emile Pickhardt | 27 |
| Mme. Eef | 27 |
| The Lightning-Rod Dispenser. Will Carleton | 28 |
| Why Women Marry | 30 |
| A Pathetic Old Man | 31 |
| The Druggist’s Vengeance | 32 |
| The Emancipation of Man | 33 |
| The Wickedest Man in Memphis. Alex. J. Brown | 34 |
| The Knights of the Road | 35 |
| Heinz Von Stein. Charles G. Leland | 35 |
| Chairley Burke’s in Town. James Whitcomb Riley | 36 |
| The Wife’s Strategy | 36 |
| Precepts at Parting. Irwin Russell | 37 |
| Advice to a Young Man. R. J. Burdette | 38 |
| The Chap that’s Been over to Lunnon | 38 |
| Noodleberry as a Neighbor. W. H. Ellis | 39 |
| How We Tried to Whip The Teacher. Eugene J. Hall | 40 |
| Der Sphider und der Fly. Charles Follen Adams | 41 |
| Katrina’s Visit to New York. Alex. T. Brown | 42 |
| The Turkish Bath. By A Young Woman | 43 |
| Our Boarding-House Thanksgiving | 44 |
| Managing a Mule. Irwin Russell | 45 |
| Der Oak und der Vine. Charles Follen Adams | 45 |
| The Skeleton’s Confession. E. S. V. Z. | 46 |
| How She Won Him | 47 |
| The Champion. Edward P. Jackson | 48 |
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| Shamus O’Brien, The Bold Boy of Glingall. Samuel Lover | 3 |
| The Soldier’s Reward. J. W. Donovan | 7 |
| The Kitten of the Regiment | 9 |
| Perils of a Teacher. J. W. Donovan | 10 |
| A Climb at Rouen. M. Betham Edwards | 11 |
| Catching the Colt | 12 |
| Something for Strikers | 13 |
| Harmony | 13 |
| By the Wayside. E. Doherty | 14 |
| The Unwelcomed Baby | 15 |
| Running Before It. William Constable | 16 |
| “Warned.” Crape Myrtle | 17 |
| The Old Wife’s Kiss | 17 |
| The Old Office-Desk. Henry J. Shellman | 19 |
| Chickens Come Home to Roost. Ernest M‘Gaffey | 19 |
| The Blacksmith of Ragenbach | 20 |
| The Old Mill. H. W. Field | 21 |
| One at a Time | 22 |
| The Hot Axle. T. De Witt Talmage | 22 |
| Ellsworth’s Avengers. Tripp | 23 |
| The Origin of Whiskey. H. Burgess | 24 |
| The Two Words. J. E. Dinkenga | 25 |
| Listeners. M. K. D. | 25 |
| The Delinquent Subscriber. Margaret Andrews Oldham | 26 |