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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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l,i(> Insurance. 
""VTONE is less respected than the man who 
_LN muddles away his income nobody knows 
how. For all expenditure there should be some- 
thing to show, and that something ought to have 
either usefulness or dignity or permanence to rec- 
ommend it. 
But every now and then we meet with cases of 
expenditure actually mysterious. A man of princely 
Inheritance or preferment does nothing with it, 
makes no figure, helps nobody, maintains no ex- 
pensive state, yet not only spends every dollar of 
his income, but is in continual embarrassment and 
difficulty. His estate crumbles away, his house 
gTOws dilapidated, his equipments shabby, his cre- 
ditors clamorous, and at last he dies, leaving his 
sons penniless and his daughters homeless. In- 
Btead of performing his part in sustaining the great 
fabric of society as far as his influence and oppor- 
tunity enable him to do so, there is one vast 
dilapidation. 
Nobody can say exactly where the fault is or 
where the money is gone. It has not benefited 
friends, assisted dependents, built school-houses, 
tilled the soil, developed the country, beautified 
the towD, or done anything that can he set down to 
his credit. It has all been dribbled and frittered 
away on hollow pretenses and petty occasions and 
trivial objects, without either system or purpose. 
It has won neither gratitude nor admiration nor 
respect. The only useful thing the man docs is to 
fertilize the earth by rotting in it. 
How mean does such a life appear ! How un- 
worthy of the name of life ! And yet how many 
human lives are lived to no better purpose, and 
leave behind them no more creditable results ! 
The sin of this aimless, empty prodigality lies at 
other doors as well as those of the rich. Moderate 
and even scanty incomes can be made to contribute 
something permanent to the fortunes of their reci- 
pients. But it is the men of small means and mod- 
erate incomes who are most sadly at fault in respect 
to that useless expenditure of which we are speak- 
iDg. It is not extravagance, because such can not 
be extravagant. It is a slippery habit of expendi- 
ture, which justifies itself with the unspoken 
apology : " I can never save anything. My effort 
to do so would be contemptible and vain. Why 
then attempt it ? " 
But there is no man of howsoever moderate in- 
come, or howsoever 6mall means, who can not at 
least leave his family the better for his havinglivcd. 
The savings of a little economy, the small self- 
denials that can be made every day, and in the 
making of which manhood grows to a tougher 
fiber and a statelier height— these will suffice to 
leave to the mother and her little ones a legacy 
that will lift them above want and the fear of waut. 
Life insurance is the only means known whereby 
this can be surely done ; and in this light life in- 
surance is seen to be a duty that no true man can 
excuse himself in neglecting. It is frequently and 
warmly commended, but it can not be commended 
too often nor with too much warmth. It is the 
moral duty of every man to bequeath to his chil- 
dren more money than he began life with himself. 
Life insurance alone enables him to do this beyond 
peradventure. 
Many are the companies appealing to the public 
for patronage. Most of them are good; and 
among the very best is the United States Life In- 
surance Company of this city. It is secure; it is 
liberal ; it is progressive ; it is honorable. Nearly 
a quarter of a century has tested it, and each year 
has borne increasing v/itness to its stability and 
its worth. 
Breech - Loading Shot- 
Guns of all the celebrated makers- 
Stnrtevant's Patent Brass 
Shot Shell. 
Shooting Tnckle of everv 
deseriotion. Send for Descriptive 
SCHUYLER, HARTLEY & GRAHAM, 
ID Maiden Lane, New Tort. 
Catalogue. 
Iff AMMOTBB BKO^ZS'I TURKEYS 
-!'-■- and POULTRY. J,. L. REED, Auburn, Ohio. 
Circulars free. 
\ CTTRlostTY o* page 118, ffeftA it, stifl sen's tot one. 
(CIKCTJLAB.) 
Consumers Importing Tea Co., 
No. 8 Church Street, 
P. O. Box 5,509. New York City. 
This Is a combination of capitalists to supply the consum- 
ers of Teas throughout the United States on the mutual 
priuciple. 
"We have experienced agents in all the best districts of 
China and Japan to select Teas especially for our trade. 
Wc expect every consumer of Teas to render us all the 
assistance they can in carrying out our enterprise, as wc 
make a specialty of SUPPLYING CONSUMERS ONLY 
(and allow no middlemen to make any profit on our import- 
ations), which will enable us to supply tlicm with Teas at 
prices lower than have ever been known, and of those fine 
qualities that seldom reach the interior, being sold only in 
the large cities and among tho very wealthy. 
Hoping the consumer will take an interest in our enter- 
prise, and send at once for a circular with lull explanations 
of how to proceed to obtain our goods, we remain, 
Most respccttully yours, 
Consumers Importing Tea Co., 
No. 3 Church Street, 
P. O. Box 5,500. New York City. 
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in January, 18T4, 
by the Consumers Importing Tea Co., in the Oflice of the 
Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. 
GREAT DEDUCTION. 
TEAS and COFFEES 
At Wholesale Prices. 
Increased Facilities to Club Organizers. 
Send for New Price-I*lst. 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY, 
(P.O. Box5M3.) 
SI and 33 Vesey St., New York. 
OUR BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED 
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c|Numberingl75 PACES, and containing 
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C. To our patrons they wdl be mailed as usual 
p free; to all others, on receipt of 25c, which 
p? we rat urn in Seeds or Plants, with first order. 
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Gardening for Profit, 
or Practical FBoricnltnre 
Price $1.50 each {prepaid by mail,) have 
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IPLAWT5" 
CHOICE SEEDS. 
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FOR EARLY PLANT5KG. 
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True Jersey Wakefield do " 75c. " 15c. 
Boston Market Dwarf Celerv " 50c. " 10c. 
" Hotbed Lettuce... " 50C. " 10c. 
White Spined Hotbed Cucumber.. " 50c. " -10c. 
Our new Seed Catalogue for 1874 will be 
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Address SCHLEGEL, EVERETT & CO., 
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Erfaothus Ravenna;. 
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CHAS. T. STARR, Avondale, Chester Co., Pa. 
SEEDS. 
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mailed to all.appltenntB. Address 
KERN, STEBEK & CO, Seedsmen, St. Louis, Mo. 
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H. W. JOHNS, 87 Maiden Lane, N. Y, 
Patentee and Sole Manufacturer. Established 1S53. 
THE TESTIMONY OP ALL. 
SILVER TIPPED 
The only Shoe for children. 
"BEEBE" 
lias an unexampled record- 
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ever having tailed to give per- 
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existence. Finishes the wort 
entirely without supplement- 
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tears the clothes. Cheap, con- 
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to last a lifetime. Price $15.00. 
CARR & HOBSON, Sole Pro- 
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