AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
357 
1873.] 
THE BECKWITH 
WING-MACHINE IMPROVED. 
PRICE, S12. 
iVith New Braiding-Foot and other 
Valuable Improvements. 
Clinton Hollow, N. Y., Feb. 9th, 1873. 
Gkntlkmkn: I received the Improved Beckwith Sewing- 
Machine yesterday. Words will fail to express my admira¬ 
tion of it. I had never seen one—never used any machine 
much—and had not the slightest trouble in immediately 
sewing with yours. Truly yours, 
A. F. COOKINHAM. 
Newport, October loth, 1812. 
Gentlemen: The Machine I bought of you September 
21 st gives great satisfaction. Wife says she would not give 
it for a $100 machine, it is so nice and handy. 
Respectfully, CHARLES ALMY. 
IVe have contracted with the Beckwith Sewing Machine 
Company for a large number of them to supply our own 
friends, and as Premiums. Each machine is put 
in a neat, compact box, with hammer and guide, oil-can 
with oil , thread, different-sized needles , etc., with full 
Printed Directions for using, and delivered to any express 
office in this city, without extra charge above the $12. 
As we buy the machines at wholesale price, we have de¬ 
cided to give our readers some advantage of this, and we 
therefore propose to make a present for himself or 
herself, or for any friend, of one copy of Hearth and 
Home for six months, or one copy of the American 
Agriculturist for one year, to those persons who 
send us $12 for one of the machines while this offer 
is continued. 
The New Sewing Machine as a 
IPESEfflSCIS without Money. 
To enable those to get this machine wtio can not raise 
even the $12 to buy it, we make the following offer : 
We will give the Machine to any one 
who will collect and forward EIGHT 
subscribers for HEARTH AND HOME 
one year at $3 each ; or SIXTEEN sub¬ 
We have been offering as a Premium, for a year past, 
the 
Beckwitli Sewing-Macliine, 
which was fully described in the American Agriculturist 
for March and April, 1S72. We have already given and 
sold more than one thousand of these machines, and tes¬ 
timonials of satisfaction have come from every quarter. 
scribers to AMERICAN AGRICULTUR¬ 
IST for one year, at $1.50 each, express- 
age on the Machine to be paid by the re¬ 
cipient of it. 
jpg ’” Almost any lady can readily secure this small 
number of subscribers and get a machine free ; or 
some friend can thus obtain it for her, as a present. 
We now offer the Beckwith Sewing-Ma¬ 
chine, Improved, price $12. A new and very 
simple braiding-foot has been made, by which a child caii 
sew on braid without the least trouble, following any de¬ 
sired pattern with ease ; also a new arm, spiral spring 
and lever for raising the presser-foot, all of which are 
now set in a position that leaves the needle free to he 
threaded. The joint is much enlarged, and the machine 
is otherwise greatly strengthened and improved. The 
use of the braider-foot alone will he valued more than 
the cost of the machine. This, with the other improve¬ 
ments, is considered so important, that the Beckwith 
Sewing-Machine Company will make no more of the $10 
style. 
Read wliat the People Say. 
Hundreds of letters have been received by us and by the 
Beckwith Sewing Machine Co., extracts from a few of which 
are given below. Some of them were written with 
Address 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 245 Broadway, N. Y. 
THE BECKWITH 
PORTABLE 
Family Sewing-Machine, 
PRICE $20. 
Enlarged and Improved. 
ITS WEIGHT IS 7 POUNDS. 
We have been offering for a year past 
reference to the $10 Machine, but are appropriate to the 
Improved Machine, as that comprises all the excellencies 
ol the former, with the additions already noted. 
Waynesville, Ohio, June 10, 18i3. 
Sirs : I received the sewing-machine in due time. I am 
perfectly delighted with it. I have used it on all kinds of 
goods- It gives entire satisfaction. 
Mils. EMMA CARDER. 
Tie Beckwitli Sewins - Machines, 
both the original $10 Machine and the $12 Improved, as 
Premiums, and in that time have disposed of hundreds of 
them, which have given almost universal satisfaction, and 
elicited multitudes of testimonials of delight from the reci¬ 
pients. While we continue the offer of the Improved $12 
Machine as heretofore, we now offer the new 
Plymouth, Wis., Jan. 29th, 1873. 
Dear Sir: I have had the Machine nearly a year, I think, 
and this is the only accident (breaking one needle) that has 
occurred to it. I have used it a great deal, and like it very 
mueb. Yours respectfully, 
Mrs S. C. WILLEY. 
Laclede, Mo., Jan., 1873. 
Dear Sirs: Please send amount inclosed in No. 1 and 2 
needles for Beckwith $10 Sewing-Machine. The little tiling 
workB like a charm. Truly yours. „ 
S. A. HENLEi. 
Churchvillk, Va., Feb. 22d, 1873. 
Gentlemen: The three Machines came safely to hand, 
and I have sold two of them to my nearest neighbors, who 
are much pleased with them. 
Yours, etc., J. H. HEIZER. 
Kyi-erstown, Pa., Feb. 13th, 1873. 
Gentlemen: The Machine works with perfect satisfaction 
to all. I am young, and never sewed on a machine until I 
got the Beckwith, but by closely following directions on 
the lid of the box, I got along without any trouble. 
A. F. HOOYER. 
Portable Family Machine, 
price $20,which comprises all the excellencies oi the former, 
with many valuable improvements. Its size and power are 
increased, and its capacity thus very much enlarged,without 
impairing its portability. There have been added cam and 
ecceutric movement, a balance-wheel, and also an oscillat¬ 
ing needle-clamp, by which the length of stitch can with the 
greatest ease be changed to the finest shade of variation 
without touching the needle. 
We xvill give one of these $29 Machine?* to 
any one who will collect and forward to ns 
Thirty Subscribers to American Agricul¬ 
turist at S1.50 each, or One Hundred at SI 
each, expressage on the Machine to he paid 
by the recipient of it. 
To any one sending us $20, we will send one of thu Machines 
(packed in a neat, portable case, with handle to carry it 
easily), expressage to be paid by purchaser. If, after having 
the Machine 30 days, and giving it a fair trial, it does not 
give satisfaction, upon the return of the Machine, express 
charges paid, we will refund the $20. 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY , 
345 Broadway, New York. 
28 th Tliomsand. 
THE 
HOOSIER 
SCHOOL-MASTEE. 
By EDWARD EGGLESTON. 
Finely Illustrated, with 12 Full-Page 
Engravings, and Numerous Other 
Cuts, 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
It is full of quaint humor, a tender pathos, and vivid de¬ 
scriptions.— New York Standard. 
The “ eventB ” are stirring and dramatic, and the style is 
quiet, impersonal, and almost epigrammatic in its ability to 
lay bare an entire situation or character in a sentence or 
phrase— Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 
It is at once quaint and truthful, and illustrated as it is by 
masterly cuts, it should be one of the most popular 
books.— Christian Standard (Cincinnati). 
For realistic conception and life-like delineation of char¬ 
acter, it is not excelled by any American story.— Methodist.. 
Some passages in it, for life-like delineation and the sim¬ 
ple, artless beauty which constitute the highest periection 
of story-writing, are equal to some of the very best passages 
in Dickens.— Religious Telescope. 
PRICE, POST-PAID.-.$1-25- 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 
345 Broadway, New York. 
18tli Thousand. 
The End of the 
World. 
A LOVE STORY. 
By EDWARD EGGLESTON, 
Author of “The Hoosier School-Master." 
with 
Thirty-two Fine Illustrations. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
The personages who figure in this story are, with one 
exception, country people—such men and women as 
Wordsworth loved to study. It is not every man, what¬ 
ever may be his talents, that can safely enter this sphere 
of literary labor. To be successful in it, lie must possess 
exceptional qualities; hut for those who know how to 
find it, here there is gold of the purest, richest kind. In 
such a work, however, there is no convenient place 
where mediocrity can rest; there is nothing hut absolute 
failure or absolute success. And Mr. Eggleston has suc¬ 
ceeded. His power lies in the delineation of character. 
The plot is ingenious and natural, the incidents aie man 
aged with great skill, and there are many descriptive 
assays of singular force and beauty. But the stvon ° es 
mpression left on the reader’s mind as he closes the 
olume is that he has been in the company of very inter 
sting men and women, and has made a number of new 
,nd valuable acquaintances.— The Albion, New York. 
Price, Post-paid, $1.50. 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 
345 Broadway, New York. 
