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tinware, for not only is the tin-man frequently a thing of 

 the future in new towns, but it is troublesome to send to 

 him, even if within a few miles, to mend every little hole 

 that you could do yourself. 



We know all about it, and now we have read a declara- 

 tion of independence, which was only delayed until we 

 found out where to send for our soldering implements, these 

 and rosin, with muriatic acid for greasy patients, are all 

 one needs. 



Housekeeping stores usually have the soldering caskets ; 

 but for those who do not know where to send, we will state 

 that we got ours by mail, at a cost of sixty cents, from A. 

 H. Pomeroy, 216-220 Asylum Street, Hartford, Conn. 



In one year this little casket has saved at least ten times 

 its cost, beside the convenience of being able to mend a 

 leak without any delay or expense. 



As to furniture : advice on this subject is more difficult 

 to give, as a great deal depends on the point to which the 

 settler is bound, especially if he has to buy new furni- 

 ture. If it be near Jacksonville, Palatka, Leesburg, Sand- 

 ford, Gainesville, Ocala, Orlando, or any of the larger 

 towns, then it would be well to bring from the North only 

 such few heir-loom articles of furniture as one ia not will- 

 ing to part with — carpets, matting, bedding, especially hair 

 mattresses and feather pillows, j)ictures, brackets, books, 

 and the little odds and ends that do not take up much 

 room, yet go very far toward making a home cheerful and 

 restful. It is all a question of expense, and where the 

 requisite furniture can be bought on the sj)ot it is usu- 

 ally found that the prices asked for them are little if any 

 higher than the same things would cost if purchased North 

 and brought here by the settler ; the freight charges will 

 make up the difference. At Jacksonville and Fernandina, 

 household furniture, especially, is almost if not quite as 



