name and address of the writer appearing on the first page. Stamps
should be enclosed for their return if unavailable. Prompt attention
will be given to all manuscripts, and such as are found available
will be paid for upon acceptance, not upon publication. While all
manuscripts will be examined impartially, we shall, of course, be
disposed to consider with greater favor those submitted by our
subscribers, as we wish to encourage them as much as possible to
contribute to our columns.

  _DATE OF PUBLICATION_

It will be noticed that, this month, the magazine reaches our
subscribers much earlier than any former issue. We now have everything
in such working order that we shall be able to do even better with
succeeding numbers. It is our intention to eventually have the magazine
in the hands of our subscribers by the first of the month.

  _$100 PRIZE STORY_

In order to encourage our readers to literary effort, we have decided
to offer a cash prize of $100 for the best short story for young
people, from one to five thousand words in length, suitable for
publication in this magazine. Full particulars in regard to this offer
will be found in the advertising pages of this issue. The offer is
confined exclusively to subscribers of Youth, and we hope to see a
large number of stories entered from them for competition.

  _TELL YOUR FRIENDS_

If you are pleased with YOUTH, we hope you will tell your friends
about it, and thus aid very substantially in increasing our circle of
acquaintances. In case you have any criticisms or suggestions, we shall
be very glad to receive them. YOUTH is published in the interest of its
subscribers, and while we have many ideas which we will carry out in
the immediate future, we would be glad, nevertheless, to receive the
criticism and advice of our subscribers. It is our purpose, as far as
possible, to meet their views.

  _50c. FOR TWENTY-FIVE NAMES_

Anyone who will send us the names and addresses of twenty-five of his
friends, boys or girls, and fifty cents additional, will receive a
year’s subscription to YOUTH. The magazine will be sent to any desired
address. This is a very easy way for any person, young or old, to
obtain a year’s subscription. We wish the twenty-five names for the
sole purpose of distributing sample copies of YOUTH. They will be put
to no other use, so that no one need have any hesitation in sending the
list.

  _AN EASY WAY TO EARN MONEY_

In order to increase the circulation of YOUTH as rapidly as possible,
we have decided to make some exceptional inducements to boys and girls
to obtain subscriptions. The work can be done after school hours,
and on Saturdays and holidays. The arrangement we make for doing the
canvassing renders the work very agreeable, and the commission offered
is so large that it cannot fail to be an inducement.

To such of our readers as would like to earn a considerable sum of
money with little effort, we suggest that they send us their names and
addresses, and we will at once forward full particulars.

Transcriber’s Notes:

A number of typographical errors have been corrected silently.

Irregular closing quotes were not modernized.

Archaic spellings have been retained.

Correct MacNair to McNair in Table of Contents.
Famous person and consistent through seven issue project.

Cover image is in the public domain.