Xenia, Ohio.

I wish to ask a favor of some of the Southern correspondents of the Post-office Box. My sister planted a cotton seed, and the plant that came up bears white blossoms which afterward turn red and drop off. Now I would like very much to know whether it is cotton or not. I would also be glad for all information about the cotton-plant that any correspondent will give.

Roscoe E. E.


I am a little boy seven years old. I live at Ingleton, Alabama, two miles from Dickson. My papa owns a large stone quarry. I have two little brothers and one little sister, and we take Young People. I like Bessie Maynard's letters to her dollie the best of all.

Georgie F.


Buffalo Paper Mill, North Carolina.

Papa takes Harper's Magazine and Weekly, the Bazar for mamma, and Young People for my brothers and sister and myself. I like to read the stories, and the letters in the Post-office Box.