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UNCLE BEN'S GOLD MINE

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 47.

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UNCLE BEN'S GOLD MINE

By Editor

Not less than 30,000 children have read "Uncle Ben's Cobblestones," stories and will be glad to know that he is writing many more.
He calls these new ones "Uncle Ben's Gold Mine," or "An Australian Story."
His nephew, Tom, leaves his city home in America, and goes across the ocean to Australia. Uncle Ben's brother, who has been a successful miner, invites Uncle Ben and Tom to visit him.
Uncle Ben's well-known ability to tell many good and profitable stories seems to grow with his age, and as he has a real gold mine, and finds real gold, the interest in these stories becomes more and more absorbing.
And then, Uncle Ben's brother has a daughter who tells good stories, too. She is particularly interested in writing and printing, and tells where our A B C's, which to us seem so common, came from.
But we can not stop to tell you all the good things about these stories. We can not tell you how many different places, and in how many different forms Uncle Ben taught Tom to find gold.
But we invite you to read the stories, which will begin in OUR LITTLE FRIEND early in January.

MORE STORIES

Some years ago Vesta J. Farnsworth wrote about the home talks of three children and their mother, and called it "The House We Live In." OUR LITTLE FRIEND readers liked these talks so much that they asked to have them put in book form. The book has been read by more than 20,000 children, and many others are still calling for it.
Altho Mrs. Farnsworth has been very, very busy, she has finally found time to write another series; this time on such common things as flies, mosquitoes, bugs, caterpillars, etc. She has not sent us all these stories yet, but those we have read are first class. Just listen to a little talk between the Water Boatman, which is a kind of water bug, and Harold and Glenn, who with their mother are the principle speakers in the story:
Harold: And do you row about under the water?
Boatman: To be sure. As I told you before, I am like a boat, a submarine, I think that is what you call a boat that goes about under water, and yet I can fly as well as swim.
Glenn: Do you have wings as well as oars?
Boatman: Yes, four of them, and cases to put them into. When tired of rowing I open my wing-cases half way, push out my wings, and sit on top of the water by the hour.
Harold: But you can not fly in water. How do you get out of it when lying there on your back?
Boatman: Just as easy as you can say one, two, three. I go down deep in the water, make several quick strokes with my oars which bring me up into the air, then I spread my wings and fly away.
Mrs. Farnsworth plans to have a great many pictures to help her make these stories so interesting that all the little folks will want to read and re-read them. She hopes to have the whole series ready so that we can commence them early in January.

OTHER THINGS OF INTEREST

Besides the stories above mentioned, OUR LITTLE FRIEND will contain a large number of articles that will help the children to become better boys and girls, and will interest them in the blessed truths of the Bible.
It will continue to give the International Sabbath-school Lessons for Primary and Kindergarten Divisions, and more care and attention will be given to its general contents than ever before.
What will please your boy and girl, or some one else's boy and girl, better than to receive a subscription to OUR LITTLE FRIEND for a Christmas present? Fifty cents will send it to one of them for a whole year—fifty-two weeks. Address,
OUR LITTLE FRIEND, Mountain View, Cal.