WIi OFFER the Thila. Weekly TRIBUNE AND FARMER 
FROM NOW TO JAN’RY 1st, 1883, 
for ONLY 15 Cts. i \ p t Tm t #s ge 
Established 11 yeers. Regular Price SI per year. 
No sensational or long-winded stones admitted to mir columns. Short, stories, pure 
at'd wholesome; a whole page devoted to our Agricultural Department, under the 
charge of Prod Meehan, and is considered the best published m the United States. 
Original matter, Market reports, and our discussions and answers to correspondents 
make it the nr>.,; valuable paper published for tanners. The Ladies’ and House¬ 
hold Department, under the charge <>t Louisa Knapp, devotes < tie whole page to 
Household nit,tiers every week and is "just splendid.” Everything bright and 
orfg’nal, no stale receipts. Tells the ladies all they want to know, and 
answers all their questions, now to knit, crochet, mane ail manner of fancy 
work, cook, take cate or tiie sick, dress Well and economically, care of children, 
e many in ho"se-work, and keeps them posted on e erything new Youth’s Col¬ 
umn la complete, with stories of adventure by land and sea. The heM o’i .iim-n- 
Can humorists, Mose Skinner, is a regular cont i ibutor, and his letters are to tv 
f lundonly in tliese columns. Detective Sketches, exposes all city sharp¬ 
ens, frauds and humbugs. Our miscellai.eous stories, several every week, 
are complete, and selected Iroui the pens of well-known writers 
'We offer an absolute free giltof an elegant Silvor-plsmd Sugar Spoon, or a Putter Knite. I riple-plated, 
solid, honest,durable goods, to auv vvlio will send us 50 cents for n six months'trial subscription to 
Lie Philadelphia Weekly TRIBUNE & FARMER Regular price $1 per vear. We give tins Sugar Spoon 
<r Butter Knile away to every six months’trial subscriber, as a sample, of other premiums. TeTt Spoons, 
Forks, &c , of same design and quality. These goods are manufactured of the Finest Cast Steel and 
] kited witu Pure Nickel and Silver. All the objectionable qualities of German Silver and Brass, which 
.-.re known to have a disagreeable to-de. and are, when a little worn, poisonous, will he avoided in the 
v.se of these Goods. They are also st ronger and of greater durability than an v goods pr iduced, and 
w ill wear twenty-five years. Positively guaranteed to he of the best quality. We use none hut relia¬ 
ble goodo from the largest manufacturers itt the world, and the verv best and most expensive in qual¬ 
ity and design. By so doing it pays us better is: the end than thousands of dollars in newspaper ad¬ 
vertising, by securing confidence and influencing clubs wherever they are introduced. 
A AECCD On receiptof on 1 v §1, our regular price for one year subscription, we 
A4 2H b ■ EL 1% ■ will send the TRIBUNE & FARMER every week- for the balance of 
this year, and the whole year of 1883, also the Butter Knife and Sugar Spoon. We make this liberal | 
offer knowing tliat.9 out of 10 will use thepremiums as samples to raise clubs when they see the value of 
the goods and cheap price for so good a paper. The TRIBUNE & FARMER is an old established and 
reliable weekly newspaper, and can and will do exactly as it promises. W*- have been in the business | 
since April. 18(53, over nineteen years, and have the capital to back- any promises we make. We have 
been for years in the Iron Building, corner Fifth and Chestnut Streets, opposite the Post Office and 
Independence Hall, the most prominent, corner in Philadelphia, and vou can easily satisfy yourself 
that wears perfectly reliable and well-known, bv making inquiries of anv news-uper, bank, or express 
office in Philadelphia. Address JHL. K. CURTIS & CO., Publishers, Pliiia., Pa. 
ONLY LOOK! 
WE 
WANT 
200,000 new readers for our 
paper immediate!v, and in’order to obtain them and 
ini induce it i> to every home in the Union whore it is 
n< t a re^u ar visitor, we are now inakinft extraordinary 
offers. V, e will send the ILLUSTRATED BOS¬ 
TON CA”ETTE free for t. e next three months, 
to all who wul send us 30 cent? in postage stamps, 
| to heib pay postu&c'tmcl cost of this aciv rti onient* 
and to each persniKwe will send free 'b.e f >.lowing : 
Our Combination Family Needle Package, con- 
tai, i gigflbist English Needles, put up in uu, roved 
. wrappers. Each package contains t.ie following: 4 
papers, 25 in each; also, 2 steel bo. kins, o long C‘4.on 
■ darners, 2 short Cot on darners, 2 extra line cotton 
I darners, 2 wool, 2 yarn, 1 worsted, 1 m tto, 2 carpet, 
and 3 button Needles, aiid | doz. beautnruilv fringed 
Nankins new sWlo. The GaZCT'i K is a Mammoth 
Family Story Paper, filled with bright and sparkling 
Stories, Sketches, Poems, Fashion Notes. Needlework, 
and Household matters, in fact, everything to amuse 
and delight the whole family circle. Write to-day. 
Address |NGRA’-!AIv1 &. CO., Batterymarch St., 
Boston, Macs. 
RELIABLE SEEDS 
At Honest Prices! 
Wholesale and Retail. 
Choicest Cabbage mid Onion 
Seed* a Specialty. Everything is 
varranted first class Catalogue 
Free. Inane F. TllHu&haat, 
La Plume, Lack^a( o.,Pa. 
LITTLE WONDER 
TIME KEEPER 
Just what everybody needs. Far¬ 
mers, Mechanics, business Men, or 
Hoys can now own a Perfect 1 ime 
Keeper. The Eitile Wonder Time- 
Keeper is NO HUMBUG, nor is i’ 
u cheap toy. It is a thoroughly re 
liable teller of the time of day, in \ 
handsome silver nickel hunting- 
case. and fully warranted. Cheap Watches are as a 
general thin# poor time keepers, hut the Little Wonder 
can ahvavs he relied upon. Head out' offer. 
We want 200,000 new readers for our paper 
immediately, and in order to obtain them and introduce 
it into every home in the Union where it is not a regu¬ 
lar visitor, we are now making ra 'lilIs.."'/s'*' 
We will send the ILLUSTRATED BOSTON GA¬ 
ZETTE free for the next three months t<> all who will 
send us 36 cents in postage stamps, to help pay post¬ 
age and cost of this advertisement, and to ®*jch person 
we we will send free one of the LITTLE WONDER 
TIME KEEPERS and a tine gold-plated Vest Cham 
attached. The'l ime Keeper and chain is well worth 
double the price asked. lie Gazette is a Mammoth 
Family Story Paper, tilled with bright and sparkling 
Stories. Sketches, Poems. Fashion Notes, Needlework, 
and Household matters, in fact, everything to amuse 
»nd delight the whole family circle. V\ e know that 
J ou will he more than pleased. Write to-day. Address, 
NGBAHAM Si CO., No. 17 Batterymarch 
Street, Bouton, Mas*. 
