aeolum, and other kinds.

C. D. K.,
490 Fifth Street, Louisville, Kentucky.

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I will exchange postage stamps with any foreign readers of YOUNG
PEOPLE. I have several rare stamps.

E. M. VAN CLEVE,
Hillsborough, Highland County, Ohio.

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HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE is a splendid paper. I would advise every
one to take it.

I would like to exchange birds' eggs with some correspondent. To
any one sending me ten eggs I will send ten in return.

J. F. WELLS,
Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada.

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A CONSTANT READER.--During early colonial times both Indians and negroes
were held as slaves in Massachusetts, and advertisements of negroes for
sale were common in the Boston _News Letter_ and other publications of
the day. Ship-loads of fresh importations of negroes were constantly
arriving from the African coast. Meanwhile the feeling against slavery
was steadily gaining ground, and much public discussion on the subject
took place. The exact date of the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts
is a disputed point, but it is generally conceded to have legally taken
place at the time of the adoption of the State Constitution in 1780,
although advertisements of slave property for sale appear in the
newspapers of a later date. In 1788 the Legislature of Massachusetts
passed an act to prevent the slave-trade, inflicting a heavy fine upon
any citizen of the commonwealth who should import, transport, buy, or
sell any of the inhabitants of Africa as slaves, or fit out vessels to
be employed in the traffic.

Public feeling was for a long time hostile to the negro race, and during
the early part of the present century "blacks" were repeatedly warned to
depart out of the commonwealth, the pretext being to avoid the increase
of a pauper population, "which threatened to become both injurious and
burdensome."

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C. S. M.--About what animal do you desire to know the habits? You left
your sentence unfinished.

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ALICE P.--Turtles prefer bits of meat and insects to bread-crumbs. If
you read former numbers of Our Post-office Box carefully, you will find
directions for feeding all kinds of turtles.

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CAMILLE B.--The poem by your little sick friend is very pretty,