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HOW is THIS FOR LIGHT DRAFT

HOW is THIS FOR LIGHT DRAFT.
STERLING, Kansas, June 9, 1878.
st. Paul Harvester Works: Dear
Sir: | purchased one of your Har-
vesters and Binders ofC. w. Boyer
and am well pleased witl its work.
l have tried several kinds of ma
chimes, but this runs as easy with
Binder as any other without. l am
doing my work right along, with
pair OF ponies. weighing about ], $50
pounds. David Orr.
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Donnely is brilliant, witty and indus
trious, and is altogether a curiosity Of whom
Minnesota should be proud, but he is decid-
eddy out Of place as a candidate for Congress.
Todd County Argus.
Does our distinguished friend mean
that Minnesota is not in the habit Of
sending men to Congress who are
''brilliant, witty and industrious!'
We deny the soft impeachment in
the name of the noble young State.
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DID EXCELLENT WORK.

SHERMAN, Texas May 16, 1878.
+. u. Deane, Esq, President st.
Paul Harvester Works: Dear Sir:
| take pleasure in stating that your
Edward Harvester and st. Paul
Binder did excellent work on my
farm
Yours very truly,
Jesse p. Loring
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RScA1CtTRAT10NS.
THURSDAY AUGUST 20. 1878.

A prominent Republican remarked the
other day that ''there are 1900 Republicans in
this county, but about 1000 OF them are
Greenbackers. " Ltchfeld Independent
The same results will be reached
in every county in Minnesota where
the question is fully and fairly dis
cussed.
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CIT DOWN GRAIN.

AVA, Illinois, May 2Sth, 1878.
St. Paul Harvester Works: Have
cut five (5) acres Of grain, short
and thin, on the ground nothing
broke. Will give it a better test
tomorrow in wheat.
R. G.. Moore.
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GOOD NEWS FROM ALL POINTS

GOOD NEWS FROM ALL POINTS.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June I'd, 1878,
St. Paul Harvester Works: Joel
Sheppard writes from Evansville,
Ind: Had field trial with McCor-
mick Binder, and scooped them.
Good news from all points.
d. S. Sheppard.
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EVERY ONE PLEASED.

ST. LOUIS. No., June 9Th, 1878.
St. Paul Harvester Works: Fos-
ter telegraphs. Binders splendid.
Sold nine harvesters yesterday.
Telegram from Gamaroa: "Binder
working fine. Every one pleased" "
D. S. Sheppard.
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BINDERS WORKING PERFECTLY.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 3lst, 1878.
St. Paul Harvester Works: Ma
chimes at Highland all sold; will
need as many more. Binders
working perfectly in all sections,
The Ava Binder has run success
fully all the week.
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TWO HORSES HANDLED II WITH
OUT DIFFICULTY.

OC DIFFIOULI1.
ZEASDALE, Riley CO., Kansas
June 5, 1878.
This is to certify that / have
used my team Of two horses on the
st. Paul Harvester and Self-Binder
slx-foot cut, and can handle it all
day without difficulty.
c. w. Uptegrove.
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DID NOT MISS A BUNDLE.

ST. LOUIS, No., May Goth, 1878.
St Paul Harvester Works: Have
Just received the following from
Breeze, Ills: The Binder works all
right Cut three (3) acres; did not
miss a bundle. Sold four (4)
machines on the ground. Signed,
j. G. Rue. d. S. Sheppard.
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HANG OUT YOUR BANNER.
DALLAS, Texas, May 9, 1878.
St. Paul Harvester Works: Both
Binders worked splendidly. No
difference. Hang out your ban
ner. Shake E. NJ Deane.
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r. C.. Moore.
THIS BREEZE WILL SWEEP OVER

THIS BREEZE WILL SWEEP OVER
THE ENTIRE \ NORTHWEST.
BREEsE, Illinois, June LIST, 1878.
St. Paul Harvester Works !:
Started two (2) machines to-day.
Eleven (11) sold. Binders are COM
plete. Indications are this Breeze
will sweep over the whole North
west. K. G.. Moore.
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Chicago Socialists are joining the
National party in large numbers.
The Plainville, Mich, Republic, is
a convert to the Greenback cause.
A Rutland, VT, Greenback club
has been formed with 100 members.
The Toledo National has been
merged into the True Nationalist of
that city.
The harmon ling committee in
New York worked hard all day yes
terday. and adjourned till to-day,
when they promise decision.
Dick Trevelick, of Detroit, has been
working up the farmers and working
men of Seneca county, Ohio, on the
Greenback and Labor question.
A son of Judge Clifford. of the
United States Supreme Court, is a
Greenbacker and has been nominated
for State Senator in Cumberland
county. Maine.
Two hundred and six millions of
coin are now withdrawn from the
business of the country, and locked
up dead in the treasury vaults. await
ing the day appointed for resumption.
The lawful interest only on this,
amounts to over one million dollars
month.
The Connecticut Greenbackers, on
Wednesday adopted splendid plat
form and nominated an excellent
ticket. Our old friend Lucien Pinney,
of the Winsted Press. was nominated
for Secretary of State, and very
superior selection it is. If reports
are to be relied on, there is a pretty
good ssshow" for an election.-Ciere-
land ddrdnce.
The Silver Committee. in their re-
port to congress last winter estimated
the Indebtedness of the people of the
United States at thirteen billions.
This is full one-third of the total
valuation Of all the real and personal
property Of the country, and about
$500 for every man. woman and
child; or S2,400 for every workingman
to pay. When will it ever be paid!
1t all bears int rest.
Despite the fact that the National
picnic at Philadelphia yesterday was
held ten miles from the center of the
city. and that the only means of
transportation were three horse cars.
there were 5000 people in attendance.
Mayor Powderly Of Scranton and
Brumm, the candidate for congress
from Schuylkill county. addressed
the assemblage, and the festivities
were kept up to nearly midnight.
Should Maine fail to achieve the
lead of National Greenback Labor
states in September, Michigan seems
sure to take the honored place in No
vember. The Democratic state con-
vention by adopting a hard-money
platform virtually decided the battle.
So SIRE is the reliable Courier. of
Wayne county, of this that it says
1--WE would not give years sub
scription to this paper for an assur-
ance that our ticket will be elected.
We have it now.
Because Frank L. Pattan. of New
port, has resigned the Presidency of
the Greenback Club at that place,
and gone to stumping with Powers
for hard money, the Sentinel argues
that the 'sGreenback cause Is col
lapsing generally in this State" The
Greenbackers of Penobscot county
have for some time entertained
suspicion that Pattan joined the
Greenback party for the sole purpose
of withdrawing and making capital
for Powers. The event shows that
their suspicious were well grounded.
Powers trick will add many votes to
the Greenback majority in that dis
trict.-CaJdis, Me-. Times.
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CUT HEAVY GREEN WHEAT.

ST. LOUIS, May 10th, 1878.
st. Paul Harvester Works: Cut
heavy green wheat to day. Binder
worked well.
D. S. Sheppard.
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GOOD REPORTS FROM ALL THE
BOYS-SHIP ANOTHER CAR.

BOYS-SHIP ANOTHER CAR.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 9Th, 1878.
st. Paul Harvester Works: Good
reports from all the boys. Binder
working well. Ship one (D car
FIVE ~ foot Harvesters, without
delay. Shake.
D. s Sheppard.
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WORKS LIKE A CHARM-SOLD
THREE ON THE GROUND.

KANSAS CRY, No., june 6, 1878.
St. Paul Harverter Works: Pur-
cell telegraphs: Binder works like
. charm Sold three (3) on the
ground. F. B. Kenner.
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IT AFTER SEEING
ALL THE REST WORK.

ZEANDALE, Riley Co., Kansas
June 5, 1878.
st. Paul Harvester Works: This
is to certify that, after seeing the
Marsh, Buckeye, Adams & French,
and St. Paul Harvester and Self
Binder at work, | prefer the st.
Paul, and have purchased one
from your agent, E. B. Purcell,an
consider it one of the Simplest,
most Durable and Lightest Draft
Machines, and am satisfied that the
six-foot St. Paul runs as light as
the fve-foot Marsh
John w. Mccormick.
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BINDER WORKS SPLENDID.

SPARTA, ILL.,, June LIST, 1878.
st. Paul Harvester Works: Bind
er works splendid.
NJ. L. Foster.
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CUT WITH THE WIND BLOW
ING A HURRICANE.
DALLAS, Texas, May 6, 1878.
St. Paul Harvester Works: Cut
five (5) acres green heavy wheat
in the afternoon. Wind blowing
hurricane. Binder works sure
every time. 3. M. Deane.
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DOES WELL ENOUGH FOR ANY.
BODY.
Cowley Co., Kansas June 2.
T. b. Kenner, Esq, Kansas City:
Dear Sir: | think the Binder does
well enough for anybody.
NJ. Hamilton.
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BINDER Is WORKING WE'LL.

SPARTA, ILL.,, May 3lst, 1878.
st. Paul Harvester Works: Bind
er it working well.
NJ. Z. Foster.
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AM SATISFIED.

Cowley Co., Kansas, June l.
T. b. Kenner, Esq, Kansas City:
Dear Sir: | started my St. Paul
Binder to-day. I'm satisfied.
Marion Flanagan
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BINDER WORKED FINE-SOLD
FIVE ON THE GROUND.
KANSAS CRY, June 9th, 1878.
St. Paul Harvester Works: Bind
er at Holden worked fine. Five
(5) sold; will close out car load.
Competitors dare not come in.
r. G Moore.
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work and agitation become the COM
plete masters of the political situation.
In Jackson and Van Buren, counties
coalition would not defeat them while
in many others they speak with entire
confidence of decisive plurality. In
some counties [ have been in there
are townships which the Green
hackers will carry almost unanimous
ly. This county (Kent) of which
Grand Rapids, the second city in the
State, is the county seat, is over
whelmingly Greenback. They carried
this city and county last Spring by a
vote that astonished' and challenged
the respect and admiration Of their
enemies. They hope to do equally
we'll if not better in November, and
will beyond question elect Hon. G.
G. Comstock to Congress from this
district.
The leaders Of the Nationals in
Michigan are almost without exception
men OF character and ability. One of
the most influential of the recent con-
verts to the cause is Hon. George Will
lard of Battle Greek, who for four years
represented the Third Congressional
district. He is one of the ablest men
in the State, and was a member of the
great Silver Commission. Of which
Senator Jones was chairman. 1t was
while upon this commission that Mr. :.
Willard investigated the greenback
views and became thorough convert
to the theories Of the Nationals,
although he remained with the
Republicans until some six months
since. when he took his paper, the
Battle Greek Journal, over to the new
party. Mr.. Willard is great scholar
and debater. Hons. Robert Frazer of
Ann Arbor. C. C. Comstock. E. Il.
Burlingame and II. S. Smith Grand
Rapids. L. II. Thomas of Reading,
Moses w. Field Of Detroit, I. r.
Sherwood Of Kalamazoo, and George
II. Bunce of Adrian, are among the
prominent men Identified with the
National partyi in Michigan. and lwere
all representative men in both the old
parties. The Greenback press of
Michigan numbers forty-seven, and
it is thought that there are several
who are preparing to come over to
''Our camp
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Personal Purity.

Rev. Francis Tiffany, in his address at the
memorial service in honor of Samuel BoWles,
gave the following passage out of his per-
sonal experience
Immediately after graduating at college,
l made voyage from New York to Havre,
during which l contracted a strong friend
ship admiration for the captain of our ship.
He was precisely the type of msn-bluf and
hearty, with commanding executive ability
and voice like speaking trumpet-to fas-
cinate dreamy student. From him l
learned lesson would like to impress now
and here At sea the exigencies of imme-
date duty necessarily absorbed his time and
thought. He was there simply the captain,
aud every inch captain. On landing at
Hare, however, and going with him to the
same hotel, the most marvellous change came
over hin. Happy as a boy let loose for a
holiday, he sat and talked the whole evening
in the most winning and affectionate vein,
and when, bedtime coming, he took his can
die and bade mo goodnight, this touching
scene ensued He had mounted the staircase
about half way, still standing at the bot
tom, when he stopped and called my name.
II was with voice trembling with agitation.
"Whst is it?" 1 answered. "Oh! l just
wanted to say one word to you, )" he rejoined,
in voice that betrayed still increasing sgi-
tation. l could not tell what to make of 1t;
but he turned and, descending the stairs,
seized my hand ia lis powerful grasp. "You
are going to Paris to morrow" he began,
and it is bad place. Keep yourself pure
keep yourself pure. l got into that sort
of thing when was like you. tell you the
memory of it poisons the whole life." The
huge frame of the man was convulsed, and
the tears streamed down his cheeks. Yearn-
ing, redeeming love in an angel, such as
Raphael or Milton pictures, could not have
shone more beautiful than did the incarna-
ton of the same quality in this bluff, wealth
er.beaten seaman.
How much of this same thing there is in
the common life of our great work a-day
world To Judge men Alright, we must know
them on duty and off duty, aAoat and ashore.
They show out one class Of qualities on the
quarter deck, and another when under the
trees, in the bosom of the home circle, or at
the social board.
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a "big revival" He wishes for something
outside the usual order of things to arouse
cold hearted Christians, wishes for an ad'
mitted "revival man not particular as to
what doctrines he breaches, so that ne can
"get up revival" This good brother, or
sister, ss the case may be, complains, and
growls, always dissatisfied, always wanting
something new. His seat in the sanctuary
is often vacant. His seat is seldom occupied
on prayer meeting occasions; but let "pro-
tracted meeting" commence, and strange
minister be on the ground and he is promptly
on hand, very leader. The character de-
scribed is not to be admired, and the inHu-
ence of those possessing such character is
ordinarily more hurtful than beneficial. The
church is strongest that has the fewest mem
berS of this description.-Kentucky Presby-
teYadn.
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THE Occident holds that what we need,
next to the Outpouring of Gods Spirit, is a
greater esprit de corps, more denOminatiOnal
sympathy and unity:
A warm, active, earnest UNCONVENTIONAL
ism is very different from a narrow and in
tense sectarianism. The latter we should
shun as a great evil; the former We should
cultivate as essential to a true Church life.
To say that we love the Church-the whole
ChurCh-and yet manifest no special inter
est in our branch of it, is as absurd as to say
that we appreciate the family as the founda-
tion of all that is pure and permanent in So
cisl life, and then neglect our own families
go and board st hotel, leaving wife and
children to stsrve at home. The good citi.
zen will first show his patriotism at his OWL
6reside, and the true Christian will show bis
loyalty to Christ by doing all he can to build
up the particular church and denomination
to which he belongs.
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FoR rHE CrSrsAL PsEsBWwN
4 EMINISCENCEs OF PRESBYTERIAN
MINISTERS.
BY AN OCToaENARIAN.
No. 36.
r. r. GURLEY.

We write these "reminiscences Just as the
subjects of them occur to the memory. We
mingle them together, North, South, East or
West, because in the times We recall the
Presbyterian was one Church. 1t was pleas
ant then to see delegates from the palm
trees of the South, the forests IF the West,
the blue mountains of Virginia, the qusys
of KnickerbOeker city, and the larohes of
New Hampshire. The delegates from Lon
donderry remined Us Of siege unparalleled
in history. But in our late civil strife the
General Assembly turned politicians, and
the Southern Presbyterian Church was or
gsnized.
We are indebted to Connecticut for some
of our valuable ministers. 1t was the native
State of r. r. Gurley, a man of mark for
his untiring philanthropy. When ne died in
Washington few years since, my surprise
was great that the press noticed his demise
so slightly; but sincere Pnianthropist had
fallen in our Israel His talents were far
beyond the common, his beneVolenoe IN
bounded, bis generosity often transeended
his seanty means, and his humility surpassed
that of the violet surmOunted by flowers Of
more imposing forms and brighter tints.-
He was not theOlogisn regularly trained,
but in his numerous addresses in behalf oi
Colonization, he was often truly eloquent
He laid his hand on every book he could fine
which treated Of Africa, even to Wiffen'i
poem entitled Mungo Park. Such volumes
were the subjects of his conversations
Give him the travels of any sdyenturer along
the banks Of the Nile, Niger, or Orange riv
er, and his attention was Immediately ab
sOrbed. Nothing pleased him better thar
charts, maps, papers and discussions abou
that benighted continent, just as if its whole
area had been bis diocese, and yet he never
received the fluid of tacsual succession. Hi
attention was devoted to things of more i'm
portance. Besides bis voyages to Liberia
he travelled over the United States. Natu
rally he was somewhat fond of his ease, bu
at the call of Colonization be was immediatel,
ready for looOmotiveness. His social feel
ings, love of conversation and domestic en-
dearments gave way at the mandate of duty
My acquaintance with the Secretary o
the American Colonization Society was be
gun under the following circumstances: Mrs
Curtis of Arlington, a truly Christian lady
in 1917 had prepared place for preaching
but very short distance from her dwelling
and among others had invited the writer
of6eiate. Il was q delightful Sabbath b
meath the armament of June Upon reacE
ing the bill on which the dwelling stands th
prospect was 6ne. The city which had bee
laid out ss q psralellOgram was before tt
eye. Anslostan island in state Of repOs
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found and enjoyed7 Keeping the Sabbath
holy is thing extremely rare. How great
the revolution that shall fill the earth with
the glory and purity of this spiritual king
dom, instead of with such sadly defective
and corrupt thing as this visible representa-
tion of it now is?" If these views of DIR.
Ramsay are correct, the atmosphere of any
Millennium before the coming of Christ, will
be like the atmosphere of a charneI house"
Z" This witness is true" P. T. P.
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Love for the Regular Means of Grace.

1t is a matter of fact Of which you may
never have thought particularly, that you
can tell very much about the type of individ-
ual Christian character, from knowledge Of
the estimate which Individuals attach to the
ordinary worship of God in His sanctuary.
That Christian who so loves the house of
God and its holy services that he can ex-
claim, expressive Of his own feelings, "How
amiable are thy tebernacles, o Lord of
hosts" &C., is almost sure to be uniformly
consistent in his Chriatian walk, you will be
almost sure to fad him great help to his
pastor, and a strong arm in the activities of
the Church. Nor is it strange that love
for the regular means Of grace should result
in uniformity of Christian character.
The religion of such person is life
principle, developing a life habit.
Then take the church member who at
times manifestS great zeal in waiting upon
God in His sanctuary but between these
times are intervals of indifference and nom
attendance. The character of the persons 8
Christian life and Influence cannot be uni
form; and it is sometimes no easy matter to
determine whether the good done in the sea-
sons of religious zeal, or the evil done in
those of religious lethargy, prepOnderates.
As to active efficiency, such persons cannot
be depended upon. Finally, take the "big
meeting" Christian. This is very dis
tinCtive character, you cannot well mistake it.
The "big meeting" Christian possesses,
according to his own ideas, an unusual
amount of .piety. He greatly deplOres the
low state of religion. Thinks strange that
others do not feel as he does. lie longs for
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SAID AN AGED CLERGYMAN, a few days
ago, half in playfulness and half in earnest,
" 1 am now close on to eighty years old, and
I've been hard at work long time; but l
haven't got the world Strengthened out yet. "
That good old man will die before Gods
work in this world is all done but he may
have served his own generation faithfully and
done all the work God had for him to do
1t is a good thing for US to understand that
when our work is done, the Lords isn't
Work we never so faithfully, We shall leave
something to be done by those who come
after us.-S. s.. Times.
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AN unChanging state of joy is not possible
on earth as it now is, because evil and error
are here. The soul must have its midnight
hour of sorrow, as well as its sunlight sea-
sons of Joy and gladnesg. Still the mercy
of the Lord shone as much in the night as in
the day. 1t is only in the night that We can
see the stars,