North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-02-05
Candidates-M o Cazlnes.

Not candidates for Office, but for news.
paper subscription we are speaking Of
Before US lie several new candidates, some
soliciting Ads, notices and exchange
some asking only one notice for their full
volume some an even exchange, &c. &c,
Let us notice few:
"The World at Home" 95 page mag.
azine OF Harper's size, published by Ev.
ans Co., Sl4 Chestnut-st., Philadelphia.
1t is devoted to Historical sketches, sto.
ries, incidents, and other curosties, most.
ly of European furnish, though many of
the finest articles are American. We like
it. Its stories and sketches are somewhat
after the manner of Household Words
but less prosaic and better adapted to the
taste Of the general American reader
Terms, Three Dollars. One hundred dol
lars worth of staple goods (no jewelry or
wHtthes) will be distributed in sealed
packages, ranging from So to $500, each
subscriber being entitled to one of the
packages let it draw what it may? Send
35 cents for a copy and learn what valua-
BILE inducements Evans & Co. hold out to
Agents.
"The american Stock Journal" mag
azine of 30 pages. devoted to Farming and
Stock breeding; NJ. B. Boyer & Co., Gum
Tree P. O., Chester Co., Penn. Price on.
ly 81 90 the subscriber for 1868 receiv-
ing the Oct, Nov. 4 Dec. numbers with
out COST How can stock-raisers do with.
out this valuable work Information tha,
comes in monthly instalments is fresh, up
to the times and it's progress, and far more
desirable than book printed half dozen
years ago, the information contained in
which is much like last years almanac.
Send along your dollar.
Here comes new candidate, and very
handsome one too, in the shape of the
' Home Circle" "a pages, quarto, nicely
printed, by S. NJ. Kennedy, at l94 South
Clark-st., Chicago and at East Thirdst.
Cincinnati. This cheerful young semi
magazine is complete melange Of all
matters that pertain to parlor or cottage
discussion, the garden, the children, the
fashions-just little, not too much-hu-
NOR, sketches, religious instruction, poetry
of course, well-wrtten stories for home,
&C., &c. All this valuable assortment of
readables only Sl.O0 single (; 6 subscribers,
one copy gratis. To larger clubs, valua-
bic presents in proportion to size of club.
The Circle is in its sixth year. Agents
wanted everywhere. Specimen copies for
ten cents.
Spare Hours" magazine for the
young, published at the great Catholic
printing depot of Patrick Donahoe, of
Boston. This is "a page magazine, beau
tifully illustrated, and filled with most in
teresting matter. The Catholics, many of
them, have been charged with neglecting
educational matters, and thus their chill
dren grow up in such ignorance as to re-
ceive reproaches from those who are less
bright minded but who happily have been
favored with books and general school in
struction the parents of the former seem
ing contented with the advancement of
their children in spiritual matters alone
The inherent strength of the Irish mental
organism is without a superior in the
world education renders it almost with
out rival.
Why do not the priests insist more
strongly upon the secular education of their
flock ? 1t cannot be, as Protestants some
times say, that Catholicity is afraid of
education. Priests know that church cer-
emonies and an occasional Are Maria will
not enable their people to contend with
the power of the educated masses with
whom they come in contact on every field
Of labor, of influence and of position.-
Heaven is doubtless beautiful place, but
unless we qualify ourselves with skill and
intelligence to provide against nakcdness
and famine we will live the days of
drudge, and probably go ''to that blissful
home" sooner than we want to Let some
leading Catholics in McGregor send for a
copy or two of Donahoe's Spare Hours and
introduce it to their neighbors. The Pilot
and Spare Hours for S4.00. Spare Hours
alone $500. Three copies $500. Single
copies will be sent by mail if 2Octs. be en-
closed in the order for it. Come and look
at our copy.
I" The Teacher Of Penmanship," an S
page quarto, is by L. S. Thompson of San
dusky Public Schools, at sl.O0 year
We have handled pens more or less since
an eight-year-old, taught school seven
years, and we have yet to learn that you
can successfully learn penmanship by read
ing. The teacher and pupil must be ,oith
each other, put their fists on the paper, the
teacher shoring not telling how to do it
These be our sentiments. Prof. A. S. Par
ish, of the McGregor Commercial College,
can ''learn' you more in two weeks than
you could acquire from reading Josephus,
or book equally large, on pcnmanship
We've ''cleared the docket" as the law
ysrs say, for the present. Others we have
named singly before this.
LIE gislative Com mmittecs.
In the Senate on Ways and Means,
Public Buildings and Medicals, NEWELL,
Of Clayton Co.
On Agriculture State University Pub
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