As musical culture increases it demands in musical instruments for home, church, or school, excellence in tone, tasteful workmanship, and durability. SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. * * * * * Carpets, Rugs, Mattings, etc., FOR CASH. * * * * * $3.50—ELEGANT STYLES, LIGHT AND DARK PATTERNS, AXMINSTER, MOQUETTE AND HEARTH RUGS, 27 × 64 in. These goods are very serviceable and are suitable for parlor or drawing room, and are sold elsewhere for $5 to $7 each. REVERSIBLE, SMYRNA AND VELVET RUGS AND MATS, large assortment. REVERSIBLE MATS, 75c., 90c., $1; EXTRA QUALITY, $1.50; REVERSIBLE RUGS, $1.60, $2.50, $3, $3.75, $4.50; EXTRA LARGE, $6, $6.50, $9 and $10. INDIA BODY BRUSSELS CARPETS, 45 and 55c. per yard. TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, 60c., 65c., 75c. and upwards. VELVET CARPETS (fine quality), $1.25, $1.35 per yard. MATTINGS, OIL CLOTHS, DRUGGETS, in numerous designs and worthy the attention of consumers and dealers. Mail orders will receive prompt attention. ANDREW LESTER & CO., 511 Broadway, St. Nicholas Hotel Block. NEW YORK, N.Y. * * * * * 60,000 TONS USED IN 1881. One ton will build two miles of staunch three-strand Barb Fence. One strand will make an old wooden fence impassable to large cattle. One strand at bottom will keep out hogs. Washburn & Moen Man’f’g Co., WORCESTER, MASS., Manufacturers of Patent Steel Barb Fencing. [Illustration] A STEEL Thorn Hedge. No other Fencing so cheap or put up so quickly. Never rusts, stains, decays, shrinks nor warps. Unaffected by fire, wind or flood. A complete barrier to the most unruly stock. Impassable by man or beast. No other Fence Material so easily handled by small proprietors and tenants, or large planters in the South. Shipped on spools containing 100 pounds, or eighty rods of Fencing. Can be kept on the Reel for transient uses. CHEAPEST, BEST AND MOST EFFECTIVE OF FENCES. Send for Illustrative Pamphlets and Circulars, as above. * * * * * THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. * * * * * PRESIDENT, HON. WM. B. WASHBURN, Mass. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ TREASURER.