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$14 Buys our 2 drawer walnut or oak =Improved High Arm Singer= sewing machine finely finished, nickel plated, adapted to light and heavy work; guaranteed for =10 Years=; with =Automatic Bobbin Winder=, =Self-Threading Cylinder Shuttle=, =Self-Setting Needle= and a complete set of =Steel Attachments=; shipped any where on =30 Day’s Trial=. No money required in advance. 75,000 now in use. World’s Fair Medal awarded machine and attachments. Buy from factory and save dealer’s and agent’s profits.

=FREE=

=Cut This Out= and send to-day for machine or large free catalogue, testimonials and Glimpses of the World’s Fair.

=Oxford MFG. CO. 342 Wabash Ave. CHICAGO, ILL.=

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=Award of Highest Prize= at =World’s Fair=, ratified by verdict of “=The Multitude=.” Our “=Modern Bath=” an ornament and source of joy in any home. Send 2 cts for catal’g illust’g 18 styles Tub. Improved Water Heaters, etc.

=MOSELY FOLDING BATH TUB CO., 181 W. South Canal Street, CHICAGO, ILL.=

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FREE TRIAL in your own home for 30 days without paying one cent in advance; machine to be returned at our expense if unsatisfactory. We take all risks, =pay freight=, ship anywhere, to anyone, in any quantity at =wholesale prices=. $65 =Kenwood= machine, =$24.50=; $55 =Arlington=, =$20.50=; $45 Arlington, =$17.50=; $35 High Arm Gem, =$12=. We sell all makes and styles, from cheapest $7.95 to best “Kenwood,” $24.50. =All attachments free.= THREE HIGHEST WORLD’S FAIR MEDALS AWARDED. Over 100,000 now in use. Buy direct from factory. Save agents large profits. Catalogue and testimonials =free=. =Write at once.= Address (in full) =CASH BUYERS’ UNION 158-164 W. Van Buren St., Dept. A 43, Chicago, Ill.=

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CHRYSANTHEMUMS

Choice Seed, 25c. packet. Circular free.

T. H. SPAULDING, Orange, N. J.

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=READER If You Love RARE FLOWERS= _choice only_, address =ELLIS BROS., Keene, N. H.= It will astonish and please. ☞ =FREE=

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=MUSICAL CLOCK & Box Combined.= Runs 8 days, keeps perfect time & furnish constantly all the most charming & popular tunes. Plays anything from a simple song to a difficult waltz or operatic selection. To introduce it one in every county or town furnished reliable persons (either sex) who will promise to show it. Send at once to =Inventor’s Co., New York City, P. O. Box 2252=.

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RARE FLOWERS FREE!

We want all to try our Northern Grown seeds, so for 30 days only we will send the following (well worth $1.00) =FREE=:

=Giant Petunias=, 5 in. across, beautifully stained. =Golden Gate Poppies=, hundreds of beautiful colors. =Snowball Pinks=, white as winter snows. =Royal Prize Pansies=, 3 inches across, all colors.

Also a 20-cent coupon and our beautifully illustrated catalogue for 1894. Enclose 6c. for postage, and address =O. M. RICHARDSON & CO.=, Florists, Canton, Maine. Mention this paper.

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All about Poultry for a 2c. stamp.

=S. M. T. JOHNSON, Box 11, Binghamton, N. Y.=

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=DRUNKENNESS Is a DISEASE.= =It can be Cured= by administering =Dr. Haines’ Golden Specific=. It can be given without the knowledge of the patient, if desired, in coffee, tea or articles of food. Cures guaranteed. Send for circulars. =GOLDEN SPECIFIC CO., 185 Race St., Cincinnati, O.= ☞ =_The Only Cure. Beware of Imitators._=

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45 Yards High Class Fowls.

=THE WORLD’S FAIR Highest Awards, MEDAL and DIPLOMA, on our INCUBATOR and BROODER Combined.= If you are interested in Poultry, it will pay you to send 4 cents in stamps for 72 page catalogue, giving valuable points on Poultry Culture. Address

=Reliable Incubator Co., Quincy, Ill.=

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OPIUM

Morphine Habit Cured in 10 to 20 days. No pay till cured. DR. J. STEPHENS, Lebanon, Ohio.

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Teeth White as Snow.

I have a simple and harmless preparation which will make the teeth PEARLY WHITE. Sample box 15c. or sample and recipe of Tooth Whitening 25c., postal note or stamps.

MATTIE M. CRON, CROMWELL, IND.

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LADY

AGENTS clear $100 monthly. =100 New Ladies’ Specialties= for Old and Young. 64 page Illust’d Catalogue =FREE=. G. L. Erwin & Co., Chicago, Ill.

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LADIES who will do writing for me at their homes will make good wages. Reply with self-addressed stamped envelope.

MISS MILDRED MILLER, South Bend, Ind.

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WOMEN WHO CAN CROCHET

and have a few hours’ spare time can get work to do =at home= to occupy their spare time =profitably=. Address

L. WHITE & CO., 209 STATE ST., CHICAGO, ILL.

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YOU

You can now grasp a fortune. A new guide to rapid wealth, with =240= fine engravings, sent =free= to any person. This is a chance of a lifetime. Write at once. =Lynn & Co. 48 Bond St. New York=

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FREE.

Send for =Free= Sample Bottle. Regular size 25c.

COHN’S, 332 W. 51 St., N. Y.

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☞ For 6 two-cent stamps we will send you a brilliant Gem of unusual color and a copy of “_The Great Divide_,” provided you write you saw this in Vick’s Magazine. Address, “The Great Divide,” Denver, Colo.

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EUROPE

Holy Land, California, Bermuda, Florida, Mexico, etc. Select parties; best ticketing facilities; choicest ocean berths. Send for “TOURIST GAZETTE.”

=H. GAZE & SONS, 113 Broadway, New York.=

(Est. 1844.) Official Ticket Agents Chief Trunk Lines.

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Greenbacks.

$150.00 for $5.00; genuine Confederate States greenbacks; in common bluebacks. Terms 4 cts. A. L. NAPLES, Mulberry, Kansas.

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NEW PLAYS

READINGS, RECITATIONS, CATALOGUES FREE!!! DE WITT, ROSE ST., N. Y.

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GREEN’S Fruit Guide and Catalogue

=80 PAGES, 9 COLORS, ILLUSTRATED. Free to all who Apply.=

Trees, Plants, Vines, Small Fruits, Roses, Ornamentals

_SIXTY THOUSAND PATRONS. ESTABLISHED 20 YEARS. 2 NURSERIES._

=See Green’s Monthly—“Fruit Grower”—Sample Free. 100,000 Readers. 50 cts. a Year.= Address =GREEN’S NURSERY CO., Rochester, N. Y.=

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_Tested and Tried, Proven Good, are all the Seeds and Plants we offer._

_Vick’s Seeds HAVE “GROWN” for over Forty Years, and will continue to do so._

_We Pay the postage or express charges, except when noted._

VICK’S FLORAL GUIDE, 1894, 112 pages of Flowers and Vegetables, will be sent for ten cents, which can be deducted from first order.

HANGING BASKETS.

Only certain kinds of plants are suitable for hanging baskets; such as are of low compact growth, to cover the surface, and such as are of drooping or trailing habit, to hang over the sides, are best for the purpose. For the center use some graceful plant of upright growth. In setting the plants in hanging baskets a layer of moss at least one inch in depth should be spread over the bottom and sides, so that the water may be held and prevented from washing through. To have the plants bloom freely they should be hung where they will be exposed to the sun at least two hours every day, and in dry weather they need copious watering. A good plan is to dip the whole basket in water until it is thoroughly soaked. It can be allowed to drip before being again hung up. Watered in this way the soil retains the moisture much better than when the water is only poured on the plants.

Panicum variegatum is one of the most valuable plants I have tried for baskets or vases. It is a species of grass from New Caledonia, of very graceful habit of growth, with beautiful variegated foliage striped, white, carmine and green. The ivy-leaved geraniums are excellent climbing or trailing plants adapted to hanging baskets. They have a fine, thick, glossy foliage, which of itself would warrant their cultivation, but they also have the charming attraction of possessing beautiful flowers as well as foliage. Any one who once succeeds in getting a good variety started in a basket will never allow their window garden to be without a plant of this kind, as they all bloom with the greatest freedom. Chas. Turner is my favorite variety of the ivy-leaved geraniums.

Nasturtiums are lovely in a “rustic” hanging basket, that is, one made of rough and gnarled roots and limbs of trees. All the varieties of oxalis are pretty grown in earthenware baskets, and wire baskets lined with bright green moss are especially suitable for the different varieties of tradescantia, or “wandering jew.” There is a drooping variety of cactus, Cereus flagelliformis, admirably suited for hanging baskets. I have seen this planted in a large ox horn suspended by chains, and it made a most unique ornament.

PRUDENCE PLAIN.

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THE UNEMPLOYED IN ENGLAND.—The sufferings of the unemployed in England, if not greater, are at least more vocal than ever, and remarkably various are the remedies proposed. Besides the project already named, Mr. Keir Hardie suggested to Parliament the establishment of an eight hours day and the prohibition of overtime in Government factories, the reclamation of waste lands and foreshores, the reafforesting of the country, and the provision of suitable accommodation for the aged poor. The _Daily Chronicle_ revives an old scheme for reclaiming the Wash, and so adding a “new country” to England. Mr. Chamberlain’s hope is for extended markets for national trade. A conference of vestries, presided over by Lord Onslow, proposed to Mr. Gladstone the formation of light railways, made and worked as in Ireland, to carry away the refuse of London. The gravity of this problem throughout the United Kingdom can hardly be overestimated, and its conditions are not so transient as those in the United States. There is no such “army of unemployed” in Chicago or New York as in London.—_From the “Progress of the World,” in the February Review of Reviews._

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TO CATARRH SUFFERERS

A clergyman, after years of suffering, from that loathsome disease, Catarrh, and vainly trying every known remedy, at last found a medicine which completely cured and saved him from death. Any sufferer from this dreadful disease sending his name and address to Prof. Lawrence, 88 Warren Street, New York, will receive the means of cure free and postpaid.

=When writing to advertisers, mention Vick’s Magazine.=

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=5½ feet long by 33 inches wide.= Made from selected skins of the Japanese Angolia. Long, soft, silky fur.

The colors are _Silvery White_, _Light Grey_ and _Dark Grey_. ☞ We also have a beautiful =Glossy Black Fur Rug at $3.00=. Same size. Comfortable, luxurious, elegant. For Parlors, Reception Halls, or Bed Rooms. Sent C. O. D. on approval if desired.

=THE LAWRENCE, BUTLER & BENHAM CO.= 94 High Street, COLUMBUS, O.

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=HILL—He Pays the Express= on this American-made Revolver. Full Nickel Plated, Rubber Stock, Center Fire, 32 or 38 Caliber, Five Shot, 8-in. long, rifle barrel 3¼ inch Long fluted cylinder, Low curved hammer which prevents accidental discharge. Weight 16 oz. Cut this out and we will ship by express C. O. D. $4.50, we pay all charges.

W. HILL & Co., 207 State Street, Chicago.

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Warranted. Light Running.

HIGHEST MEDAL awarded to MAJESTIC Only Medal for Sewing Machine Attachments

Why? Send for catalogue

TILTON SEWING MACHINE CO., 275 Wabash Ave., Chicago

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BEAUTIFUL SHAWLS

FREE

Owing to the failure, during the recent panic, of a large manufacturer of =Fine Cashmere Shawls= we were enabled to secure an enormous quantity of Plaid Shawls at a fraction of the cost to manufacture, and propose to =give them away absolutely Free= as follows: To every person who sends us =25= cents for one year’s subscription to =MODERN STORIES=, a large 16-page handsomely illustrated story and family paper, containing fascinating stories and a choice piece of sheet music each issue, by authors of worldwide reputation, we will send one shawl absolutely =FREE=. Remember there are no conditions, our offer is fair, square and absolute. Every person who cuts this ad. out and returns to us with =25= cents for our paper one year gets a shawl =FREE=. If you want one send =now=. Address,

=MODERN STORIES, 87 Warren St., New York=

=When writing to advertisers, mention Vick’s Magazine.=

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VICKS’ Brilliantly Beautiful INVINCIBLE SWEET PEAS

SUPERIOR SELECTED STRAINS.

We have for several seasons applied our best efforts towards improving, perfecting, as well as increasing, our stock of the mixture which we introduced last season as “VICK’S INVINCIBLE,” and which we know will please the most exacting. For flowers of lively yet delicate colors, varying from the pearly white to the darkest and richest reds and purples, this “Invincible Mixture” _leads_ because it is the result of culling, season after season, only the choicest and the best from the flowers of the year previous. The many and various colored and shaded blooms cannot fail to give perfect satisfaction.

=Price, Vicks’ Incredible Mixed Sweet Peas, per packet 15 cents; two for 25 cents; ounce 50 cents.=

JAMES VICK’S SONS, Rochester, N. Y.

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=Stahl’s= Double Acting Excelsior Spraying Outfits prevent Leaf Blight & Wormy Fruit. Insures a heavy yield of all Fruit and Vegetable crops. Thousands in use. Send 6 cts. for catalogue and full treatise on spraying. _Circulars free._

=_WM. STAHL, Quincy, Ill._=

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GIVE UP TRYING TO GET SATISFACTORY RETURNS FROM POOR SEEDS.

Vicks’ Seeds Contain the Germ of Life

THEY GROW—THEY FLOURISH—THEY PRODUCE ABUNDANTLY.

SOW VICKS’ SEEDS AND REAP GLORIOUS REWARDS.

You Get the Best only from JAMES VICK’S SONS, Rochester, N. Y.

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$120.00 PER MONTH

IN YOUR OWN LOCALITY

made easily and honorably, without capital, during your spare hours. Any man, woman, boy or girl can do the work handily, without experience. Talking unnecessary. Nothing like it for money making ever offered before. Our workers always prosper. No time wasted in learning the business. We teach you in a night how to succeed from the first hour. You can make a trial without expense to yourself. We start you, furnish everything needed to carry on the business successfully, and guarantee you against failure if you but follow our simple, plain instructions. Reader, if you are in need of ready money, and want to know all about the best paying business before the public, send us your address, and we will mail you a document, giving you all the particulars.

=TRUE & CO., Box 1398, Augusta, Maine.=

=When writing to advertisers, mention Vick’s Magazine.=

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DO YOU GROW “POSIES”

If so, send for Catalogue of PLANTS & SEEDS, and compare with others before you order. We send a packet of our celebrated “PRIZE” ASTERS Free, with Catalogue, if you mention this paper.

Address, The CALLA GREENHOUSES, Calla, O.

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SEEDS FREE FOR TRIAL

We have the Finest and Cheapest Seeds to be found in the world and we want every reader of this paper to try one of the following collections Free. They would cost you from 75c. to $1.00 purchased elsewhere.

=1st FREE OFFER, Vegetables=, 1 pkt. each.

=BEET, Mitchell’s Blood Turnip=, earliest and best. =CABBAGE, Surehead=, sure to head. =CELERY, Golden Self Blanching=, the best. =LETTUCE, Denver Market=, fine new sort. =WATERMELON, Dixie=, luscious, great bearer. =ONION, Selected Globe Danvers=, standard sort. =RADISH, Summer Varieties=, 15 choice kinds. =SQUASH, Fordhook=, best, new sort. =TOMATO, Picture Rock=, a grand tomato.

=2d FREE OFFER, Rare Flowers.=

=FORGET-ME-NOT, New Giant Flowered=, large. =CANDYTUFT, Fancy Mixture=, best bouquet sorts. =CALENDULA, Double White=, very showy. =CLARKIA, Salmon Queen=, richest col’d double. =CHRYSANTHEMUM, White Bouquet=, fine flower. =GAILLARDIA, Perpetual Flowered=, rich, showy. =POPPY, Riverdale Mixture=, fancy sorts only. =SCABIOSA, Dwarf, Double Striped=, lovely, grand. =SNAPDRAGON, Show Mixed=, penciled blossoms. =ORNAMENTAL GRASSES=, 25 choice sorts.

Either of the above collections, (9 packets Vegetable seeds, or 10 packets flower seeds) =Mailed Free= on following conditions: Send us 10c. for either of above collections, or 20c. for both, and we will mail them to you; also “Book on Summer Gardening,” and include in each lot a check for 10c. This check you can return to us at any time and get 10c. worth of seeds, thus the collection really costs you nothing. (We charge this 10c. to prevent people from sending who have no use for the seeds.) We want you to try our seeds.

☞ Both collections, book, and packet each of the lovely early =Carnation Marguerite= and profuse blooming =Begonia Vernon= and a 25c. check for 25c. Book free to seed buyers.

=J. J. BELL, Flowers, Broome Co., N. Y.=

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SEEDS BOX WORTH $3.50

35 Regular Size Packets, ONLY 50 CENTS.

The great demand for our 50 cent Complete Garden Collections in years past induces us to offer the same again. Many who have tried every collection they have seen advertised, pronounce this the greatest bargain they have ever obtained. OUR SEEDS ARE THE BEST AND CHEAPEST, AND WE OFFER THESE GREAT INDUCEMENTS TO GET EVERYBODY TO TRY THEM. This Great =COMPLETE GARDEN= Box contains One Packet each,

=ASPARAGUS, Barr’s Mammoth=, giants, good qual. =BUSH BEAN, Rust Proof Wax=, best bean grown. =POLE BEAN, Golden Champion=, productive, good. =CABBAGE, All Head=, large, sure header. =CUCUMBER, New Everbearing=, early, productive. =CORN, White Cory=, earliest, best, sweetest. =LETTUCE, Grand Rapids=, best forcing. =MUSKMELON, Netted Gem=, unsurpassed quality. =WATERMELON, Dixie=, luscious; has no equal. =ONION, Early White=, early, sure cropper. =PEAS, Bell’s Extra Early=, best early. =PARSNIP, Improved Guernsey=, best for table use. =RADISH, 15 Choice Summer Sorts. Mixed.= =SQUASH, Fordhook=, best for general use. =TOMATO, New Stone=, solid, large, good. =5 PACKETS Other Choice Vegetables.=

=15 PACKETS Choice Flower Seeds=, including such sorts as Cozy’s Canna, Sweet Nicotiana, Etc.

All the above, (best outfit for a complete vegetable and flower garden ever offered)—20 full packets choice vegetables, and 15 packets rare flowers in a box with our new Book on Summer Gardening by mail postpaid for only 50c. Send for it. Address, =J. J. BELL, Flowers, Broome Co., N. Y.=

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CHOICE ROSES AT 5 Cts.

OUR RAINBOW COLLECTION OF 20 ROSES FOR $1. PREPAID BY MAIL.

The roses we send are on their own roots, from 10 to 15 inches high, and will bloom freely this summer either in pots or planted in yard. They are hardy, ever bloomers. We send instructions with each order how to plant and care for them. Please examine the below list of 20 choice fragrant monthly roses, and see if you can duplicate them anywhere for an amount so small as =$1=. They are nearly all new kinds.—We guarantee them to reach you in good condition, =and we also guarantee them to be the best dollar’s worth of roses you have ever purchased=. =THE RAINBOW COLLECTION OF 20 ROSES FOR ONE DOLLAR MUST BE ORDERED COMPLETE.=

The List:—=Bridesmaid=, the best pink rose by far ever introduced. =Princess of Wales=, amber yellow, deepening to orange. =Snowflake=, pure white, always in bloom. =Princess de Radziwell=, lovely coral red. =Pearl of the Gardens=, deep golden yellow. =Beauty of Stapleford=, bright rosy crimson. =Queen of Fragrance=, in clusters of six to ten roses, white edged pink. =Rheingold=, beautiful shades of saffron and tawn. Sunset, golden amber, resembles an “afterglow.” =Dr. Grill=, coppery yellow and fawny rose. =Duchess Marie Immaculata=, an intermingling of bronze, orange, yellow, pink and crimson. =Lady Castlereagh=, soft rosy crimson and yellow. =Papa Gontier=, lovely dark red. =Star of Gold=, the queen of all yellow roses. =Waban=, a great rose in bloom all the time. =Lady Stanley=, great garden rose. =Viscountesse Wautier=, one of the best roses grown. =Cleopatra=, soft shell pink, lovely. =Sappho=, fawn suffused with red. =Letty Coles=, very chaste and beautiful.

THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING IS IN THE EATING.

This applies to Floral matters as well as to matters culinary.

Ballinger, Texas, Nov. 29.

The GOOD & REESE CO., Springfield. O. Gentlemen: The 20 ever blooming roses you sent me for $1. arrived yesterday in the most splendid condition, and allow me to say that I was absolutely surprised at the size of the stalks and the amount, length and thriftiness of the roots. I have wondered many times how you could afford to send out such roses for such a small price. Every home in the land should have their yard full of ever blooming roses at this price.

Yours,

(Judge) C. H. WILLINGHAM.

Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 20, 1893.

The GOOD & REESE CO., Springfield, O. Gentlemen: I wish to thank you for the excellent assortment of roses contained in your Rainbow Collection. On May 3, I planted them, 19 of them lived. About six of them bloomed in June, since which all have bloomed either monthly or perpetual, true to their color. On Sept. 1, I counted 106 buds and blooms on the 19 roses. They were much admired by my friends and neighbors, and allow me to thank you for furnishing this source of pleasure so cheaply.

Very respectfully,

E. D. SMITH.

82 Fifth Avenue.