“For working roads it will soon supersede the old scoop. I consider it one of the best simple inventions of the age.”——G. P. Belden, Dover Plains.

“Leaves a road in better shape, and is easier for man and team, than any scraper I ever saw.”——J. S. Kinney, Washington.

Send for circular.

S. H. DUDLEY,

Bantam Falls, Litchfield County, Ct.

YESTERDAY’S WORK.

We point to the record of results of our work among the Freedmen during the last fifteen years, as indicating a degree of progress and an amount of fruitage rarely equaled in the same length of time. We base our claims for generous gifts, now and in the years to come, upon this showing, confident that this is the best argument we can make. Is it too much to claim to have been faithful over a few things, or to ask that we be trusted with what may be needful for the many which are at hand?


TO-DAY’S NEED.

The pressing need of to-day may be seen from the following appeal, which has appeared in some of the religious papers: