The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-06-06

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81 think r car" said Tom, "but ] must
70 home FIRST"
ssDon't forget, though" said Mr.. Siuclsir.
YOU'RE q stranger nova days, By the BY
Tom" II
III won't be long" cried Tom, and with
brisk step, be walked down the street.
"Hallo, Tom, what's your hurry 7" cried
a friend, as Tom came slap up against Q
corner.
'Oh, SinclaIr's sign board was destroyed
last night. and l am going 10 him with .
new one" answered 1om with smile, which
was Numerically opposed to his new pFin'
Oiples.
"Oho that's it," resumed hia friend. ''but
perhaps il would be as well for Airlie u the
Rainbow was never put up again" -
Tom was out Of bearing.
A better sign than the Rainbow Mr.. Sim
clair did not expect to get be was only Jok-
ing with, and be raised his eyebrows when
Tom made his appearance With bundle I'M
der bis arm, and requested him 70 look 1t
the new sign-board.
II didn't think you would catch me up;
but you can step in, Tom, and lsi's see your
idea" kts,-
Tom flowly united bis bundle and held up
q bunch Ofrags before the Publican's aston
ished eyes.
"What do you mean, TOMB asked Mr..
Sinclair, feeling confident that Tom had lost
his senses.
"Aak yourself, sir, If bunch Of rags %
not the best sign publican can hang across
his door," said Tom, and hia lips quIvered.
s'Was il that bunch Of rags that Dade you
q teetotaller, Tom ," said Mr.. Sinclair, more
confused than be liked 10 own.
1T was Gods means, think, siT," an
swered Tom, "and perhaps poor wretches,
seeing there the end OF drink, may bless you
for that sign-board.N I'M NfHW
Tom walked away TO hts work, and Mr..
Sinclair went back to his counter, but ell
day the bunch Of rags troubled him. He
was a kind hearted man, and believed him
self Christian, and he did moi like the idea
Of being the cause Of misery and rags. To
q man Of his disposition, it was painful in
the extreme he couldn't help feeling angry
when poor, shiVering, ragged wretches came
in, and laid down the price Of gloss. When
be lifted the m oney be felt as if he was steal
ing their means
It was q busy day, and every new conner
was more deplorably wretched than the last
served. He was thankful when nIgLt came
The last customer was q woman literally
hanging in tatters. A little infant sat on her
arm. It was crying with cold. Ii lifted the
rags and covered its native limb, aud looked
plGeouSly at him.
Go home and put clothes on your poor
child" said Mr.. Sinclair, 6inging back the
money that the poor woman put down.
II have nothing but rags" said the wO-
man.
eTom is right" said Mr.. Sinclair, rs he
locked the door-s'the end Of drink is mise
~ and rags, and the man who has . taste
for that sort Of thing may put his name on
the new sgu-bosrd."
That same summer Mr.. Sinclair, went into
the trade, in which he made . handsome
fortune Tom Hall is now famous eOgi-
neer.
London.
The early history Of the city Of Lond On Is
very uncertain. 1t was probably foun1sd
by the Romans, about two hdndred years
before Christ, md remained under their con-
troll till the time Of Nero, when it was re-
duced to ashes by the Bhtons. About Sc
venty thousand persons were killed. In
A. D. 81, Tacitus mentions it as O place Of
great commercial consequence. In $751; il
shared the fate of all cities in the path OF
the ravagiug Danes, but was again rebuilt,
in $50, by the wise and great king Alfred
From this time we may date its true history
Henry Bsauelerk granted it charter about
1921, and Edward IT, its first charter Of cor
poration, in 1898. In 141, there were in Il
eighty thousand fighting men. la 1859, all
the Jews in the city were slaughtered.
About 1877, pocket watches were brought
from Germany. The use of coaches was in
troduced 10 1850 Ia 1908, there were about
one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants.
During the reign Of James |. the metropolis
was much increased ia size, and brick in
stead of wood was now generally used in
building. f
England was visit 4 by the plague two or
three times in each century, but the appear
ance of this dreadful disease IN the sumo
of 1865 was so terrible that the others were
forgotten. Every person left London whose
means enabled them to do 50. Neverthe-
less, of the one hundred thousand who fell
victims to this sickness, fifty thousand died
in that city alone. Whole rows Of houses
were tenantless, and the principal thorough
fares we're overgrown with grass.
This calamity was followed in the ensuing
year by one scarcely less terrible. The
Great Fire of London broke cut in the
crowded part Of the city On Sunday night,
Sept. 2, 1887, beginning ut Pudding Lane, I"
and ending at "Ple Corner" The direction
Of the wind, the material Of which the houses
werc principally built, and the imperfect ar.
rsnge msnts for extinguishing fires, favored
the increase Of the conAagration. 1t ragged
for a whole week, and burnt all that part Of
the city which lies between the Tower and
the Temple, destroying more than thirteen
thousand houses and eighty nine churches.
The flames at one time formed q column .
mile in diameter, and rendered the night as
light as day for ten miles around. This FIRE,
like all great caIamities, was attended by
some good. When the city was rebuilt, the
narrow streets and wooden houses were re-
placed by the more tasteful and convenient
buildings OF the modern age. Since that
time the plague has not appeared in EGG
land. a :
at the close Of the reign Of Charles IL, in
1866, London was the most populous capital
in Europe, and seventeen times As large Is
Bristol, the second city in England. The
a million. London now has over three mil
lions OF population aud the latest census
informs US that In that city there are more
Scotchmen than in Edinbargh, more Irish
than in Dublin, more Roman Catholics than
in Rome, and more Jews than in Ralsstins.
There are $1,000 tailors, 5000 boot and
10000 miliiners, dressmakers
and seamstresses, 200, 600 domestic servants,
50 900 panpers, zoo, 900 bachelors, a., 600
spinsters, $1,000 widowers, and 10000
widows.
Though the mortality Of LOndOn is now
only half As large as 1t was 10 the beginning
Of the century, Ons hundred and sixty mine
persons die daily.
Horrors Of Wax.
Since the ere. Of the world fourteen
thousand millions Of human beings have fall
en- in the battles which man has waRId