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onan _Lishe TIP TOP WEEKLY, IP lOPWEEKLY- AN IDEAL PUBLICATION FOR THE AMERICAN YOUTH 2 NEW YORK, DECEM BER 3, 1898. Terms to Tip Top Weekly Mail Subscribers. (PosTaGK FREE.) “= - Gh. | One Year '- -.> 2 copies one year 1 copy two years 38 months - - 4 months - - - 85c. 6 months - - - - = $1.25 How ro SEND MONKEy.—By post-office or express money order ~yegistered letter, bank check or draft, at your risk. At yourown risk if sent by postal note, currency, coin, or postage stamps m ordinary letter. RECKEIPTS.— Receipt of your remittance is acknowledged by proper change of number on yourlabel. If notcorrect you have not been properly credited, and should let us know at once. : ‘To CLUR RAIskis.—Upon request we will send sample copies to aid you in obtaining subscribers. All letters should be addressed to STREET & SMITH’S TIP TOP WEEKLY, $81 Fulton St., New York City. APPLAUSE. Gonzales, Texas., Oct. 10, 1898. = = - = . - - - Street & Smith. Dear Sirs: AS We have seen no applause from this place we thought we would write and let you know that the Tip Top.is read and appreciated here. In fact, it is the favorite. Wishing you much success, we remain, your pleased readers, C. Baquet, C, Ramsay. We are glad to hear from all our readers. It will be noticed on this page that letters come to us from all over the United States. Branchport, N. J., Oct. 14, 1898. Gentlemen: I have been reading your Tip Top Weekly from No. 1 to 131, and think it is the best weekly paper printed. We have a club down here in Branchport, and I am president; my brother, John A. McGuire, vice-president; Frank Weisner, treasurer; Alfred Seaman, secretary, and the other members of the club are David K. White, George Weeks, Arthur® Vannote, George A. McGuire, Mick Showler. I have never seen any letters from Branchport boys, so please put this in, as the boys will look for it every week. We are all under 13 years old. Yours, re- spectfully, Benjamin R. McGuire, President. 163 Seventh avenue, We hope your club will continue to be successful. Doubtless you and all other members of clubs will be pyrene in the badge which we intend soon to supply. Allow me the pleasure of saying a few true words of praise in connection with your Tip Top Weekly. I deem it the best book for young men ever pub- - i a4--Iit is a book that grows better every week. I would rather see Frank with Elsie in preference to Inza. Elsie is more loving Theodore Frank. Bridgeton, N. J. I will take the pleasure of writing you a few lines ~Ongratulating you on the Tip Top Weekly. I would like to hear from Frank’s college friends—Bart Hodge, Jack Diamond, Bruce Browning and others. I like Bart Hodge the best of Frank’s friends. I would like to know something of May Blossom. Jack Bishop. Johnstown, Pa. I have read a very great many of your Tip Top Weeklies, and think they are the finest libraries pub- lished. I am glad to know Frank will return to Yale. I hope when Frank marries he will marry Inza, I see in this number (132) a suggestion that you have made for Tip Top readers, a fine badge, and I think this a very good idea. I would like to know if you can furnish me back numbers and any quarterlies after Nov. 2. W. W. D. Peoria, I1l. You can obtain now all back numbers of the Tip 29 St. John, N. B., Oct. 25, 1898. I would like to say a few words in praise of the Frank Merriwell stories. I have heard very nearly all of them, and only started last Spring. I think they are the best weekly published. They are also instructive. My parents at first would not let me read them, thinking they were the common trash, but I soon convinced them, for I gave them one to read, and they said they were all right for any boy to read. I am glad to hear Frank is going back to Yale, and will see his old friends again. Will you ever reprint 1, 2, 3 and 4, Tip Top Weekly? N. L. Green. The numbers you inquire for are now in print. I am pleased to say that I have read the Tip Top Weekly from No. 1 to date, and I think they are the best papers published. As to the proposition about the badge for the Tip Top readers, you could get nothing better, and it will please all of the Tip Top readers, I am sure. Will you make it? Carl Wicklund. Des Moines, Ia. Yes, we intend to issue the badge shortly. I have long been an ardent admirer of your Tip Top Weeklies, and I think them a grand success. I think every American youth would do well to read them. There are hundreds of people in this city read them besides myself, and they all admire Frank Merriwell’s brave and noble disposition. I myself and a great many others whom I have spoken to about it, wish Frank to find Elsie at the end of the year and become engaged to her, for I think there is no girl for Frank like Elsie. It would be a good idea to have Inza fall in love with one of Frank’s Yale chums. E. 8. Arthurs. Batesville, Ark. Frank has already met Elsie, as you have prob- ably seen. There seems to be a diversity of opinion in regard to Elsie and Inza. I have read the Tip Top Weekly from 1 to date, and shall continue to do so, as I think it 1s the clean- est publication issued for American boys. Frank at Yale interested me the most, and I hope to see him back in college before long. Living in a city in which there is a college, I can appreciate how truthfully Frank’s college life is portrayed. James B. Hagin. Schenectady, N. Y. Mr. Standish has been and*is careful to have every detail correct. We have formed a club here called the Tip Top Literary and Athletic Club, and we all read the Tip Top. Harry, Palmer, Fred Forman, Frank Dennis, Tom Monroe, Frank King. Muncie, Ind. Your club has our most sincere good wishes, We have read the Tip Top Weeklies ever since they came out,, We have read every number, and think they are fine. The R: R. have been good, equal to the bicycle series. We like Frank best in athletic contests. We wish he could meet Elsie. We think of Inza just as he does. We would like to hear of the Yale boys. Oran Christy and Nola Brown. Kokomo, Ind. I have been reading your publication since Frank’s misfortune, and find it one of the finest publications for the American youth. Tell us more about Inza and Bob, the newsboy, and Larry, the fireman: Daniel Troy. Ambler, Mo. I have been reading the Tip Top Weekly for some time, and find it is the best boys’ paper I ever read. Every boy should read them. There is a lesson in every copy. For a boy it teaches us how to be hon- est and upright in everything which we do. It is full of sport of all kinds, I hope we will soon hear from Frank’s friends at Yale. They are such a manly lot of fellows. I am glad that Hans is an achtor the staitsh on, as he ealls it. George D. Dowden. -Jontreal, Canada. We want to express our thanks for the interesting moments passed by the reading of the Tip Top Weekly. We have read almost every novel in the market, but we have not found any ‘that we like ag well as the Tip Top Weekly. We wotld like to hear more of Inza Burrage and the college boys. We cannot hardly wait from one week to another. We would like to hear from the Dutch chase and Bar- BY ALL MEANS READ OUR PREMIUM OFFER—SEE LAST PAGE. nicgboo (E(0)