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Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-10
Better Than a Thrashing.

She might say: "There now, you good
for-nothing, worthless, disobedient little
rascal; 1t just serves you right, 1t does;
didn't tell you not to go near the water?
What little Ounce you were to jump on
that round logi You might have known,
il you only had half as much sense as q
mouse, that il would have turned with
you, and rolled you off into the water"
But she does better than to talk to
little Fred in that way. She does not
tell him that she will box his ears, or
break every bone In his body, or shut
him in the dark closet Why Because
she loves him, and can do better for him
than all that. Poor Fred is punished
enough. The soaking of his best clothes
was sorry business for him; but the
chill and the fever that came on after
the good oysterman fished him out and
took him home are all he needs just
now. His face grows pale, and his teeth
chatter, and he aches all over, and
shakes like an old omnibus Then comes
the fever, and his skin grows dry and hot,
and he feels as If he could drink bar
rel of water If they would only let him.
And Fred's mother tells him, ever SO
kindly, about how he did wrong in going
to play on the saw-logs In the water,
when she had told him not to. She tells
him that she has forgiven him, and that
now she wants him to ask God for for
giveness too
The boy who has mother that knows
how to take care of him kindly when he
is sick has great deal to be thankful
for Even if his sickness is brought on
by his own misdeeds, il she deals kindly
with him, she can do him more good than
by scolding him and telling him every
few minutes how bad he is, and that he
ought TO be sent to the House OF Refuge.
There is a little something in Fred's
heart that keeps telling him all about it,
and she knows that, and she lets that
busy little conscience Of his do the larg-
est part of the work Of reproving. Old
and YOung.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-10
PHILOSOPHICAL .sIMPKINs.


John Simpkins sat on a counter high
In his masters shop in crowded street
Musing he sat, with vacant eye,
And loosely dangled his idle feet.
What to Simpkins We're dry goods then,
What the measure of cloth and tape,
AS he dreamed his dream of primesal men
And Darwin's views OF an ancient ape.
Atoms and worlds and molecules
Rolled by in a maze with bobbin and twist,
Megalosaurus, neurosis, and spools,
The moral law and the oeningen schist.
Questions mighty, of grave import,
Surged aud tossed in his fiabby brain
Science, religion, squirt, and retorr,
Cotton and antediiuyian rain.
He pondcred of many a brachiopod,
Anthropoid capers and simian tricks.
And he doubted whether there was a God.
And whether the boss would close at six.
Customers came and customers went,
Yet Simpkins sat In study brown;
Never an ear to one he lent,
Never displayed !" hand me down.
Pondering still of science rare,
Streams of stars and the milky way,
Floecuh in the tail of the Bear
And whether the Hebrew yam" meant day
At eve, when the day of toll was done,
The boss called John to his side and said:
" Philosophy II never do here, my son,
You haint no sort OF a business head.
You're bounced, my SON." He hied him away
Yet pondered still of the brachiopod
Yet he sighed. " Ii Is just as the scientists say,
l always knew that there wasn't no Godl"
o men, my brothers, just think what You do
When you turn the head OF tailor's clerk
And go and give him eosmic cew,
When instead of that he should mind his work
For the wise should know what 1t is that wins
The strife in this dreary world OF Woe
Cosinic philosophy OF pins,
Evolution or calico.
Nsm YORK. IraDbtc
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-10

IH 1850 there was no Baptist denomi-
ton worthy of the name in this country.
A few small churches existed here and
there, but the whole membership did not
exceed 5000, and they were growing less
rather than increasing. Then came the
great awakening" mainly under White
field, when thousands were converted,
majority Of whom became Baptists, and
this was really the origin of the Baptist
denomination in America as live,
growing spiritual body.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-10

BEN FRANKLIN used TO say that no one
but fool would fight duel, but what
good does it do to call a man fool after
daylight shines through him.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-10

"A bell-hanger Of New York was re-
Gently arrested for manufacturing and
selling to dishonest conductors bell
punches that didn't punch
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-10

ENGLAND Is thinking OF celebrating the
centennial of the succulent potato.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-10

WapeIlo County.
The conductor and baggage man Of one OF
the south bound trains recently had set-to
at Eddyyille. They adjourned to the plat
form and fought it oat, OBTAINING the train
for fifteen minutes so that the passengers
could all see the fun. At the end OF the
fifteenth round the conductor threw up the
sponge, shouted "All aboard" and the train
started for Keokuk with badly-damaged
executive officer and baggage-man slightly
under the weather. There viii be room for
new train men on that road in a few days.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-06
SUBURBAN..
Judgment and Economy I'm the selection %
Permanent Homestead sites tharaeteris-
tic> aud Adv anIages OF the I'm mediate
Western suburbs.

There is no subject Of greater interest and
greater practical Importance to all branches
and classes Of the community, than that q
the selection Of homestead Sites and Their is
probably no subject that occupies the leisure
thinking time Of the public, generally, more
than the study and canvass of the new dis
trcts IT Improvement and settlement IN and
about the city in their bearings on the clrcum-
stances, incinations, tastes notions and ne
cessitIes of people respectively. The entire
belt of suburban territory is Familiarity map
ped, and outlined IN the public GIind, and I'M
dergoing perpetual comparison and contrast
of relative advantages, and any new sugges-
tons touching the general outline or special
poInLs, will no doubt he received Ia good part
Recent developments would seem to Justify a
reference 10
OUR WESTERN SUBURBS,
the great domain due west from the fixed cen
ter Of the city, and touching the western
limit line, together with adjacent subdivis-
IONS lately improved oropened for settlement,
and brief enumeration Of geographical,
commercial local and natural features and adj
vantages which, if more widely known, and
more distinctly understood by the great in
dustrial public, would probably multiply ne
gotiations and sales already so active, and
lead to still more rapid population Of that
entire realm, including the extensive domain
of the West Chicago Land Company, and the
adjacent lands and subdivisions Of &. T..
Crafts, f. &. Pope, Kerr, Davidson & WEIGH,
George q. Campbell, Charles II. Lawrence,
II. W. Austin, and others. The fact that
within the period of about six months past a
bran new village Of comfortable cottages,
shops, stores, &c, big enough for a pop-la-
ton of five hundred persons, has made it,
appearance just off the great Central Park,
and along the domain Of the West Chicago
Land Company, while almost every point in
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-06
Bargains in Carpets.

The headquarters for bargains IN Carpets,
now days, is the old familiar stand Of >.
Nickerson, IFS and $50 Madison st. The
Wiltons. Brussels, Moquctts, and palmer and
cheaper goods sold by Mr. Nickerson, are Of
his own selection. and can he rel ed on as Just
exactly what they are represented to be, al
ways. Low prices and honest goods have
given the house a splendid local reputation.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-06

IRON-F1at lar $50 TO 7-l0c horse shoe $40;
heavy bands 9l0 TO 4 so hoops $40 70 s-l0c
light hands $40 10 20; rounds and squares $40
" g 0-l0c oval 1910 10 BLOC; half oval and half
ruund 2l0 70 9l0; railroad iron $40 70 $40
SHEET IRON No. 10 10 IA, boiled, $40; Char
coal. $40; JuniAta, $500 No. Is 70 %. boiled,
8: charcoal 5-l0. Janiata, o. No. q 10 a, bsiled
aloe charcoal, J TO, juniata, $40 No. Is and
%. boiled 40; charcoal, 9-lO JuniAta. 40 No.
q, boiled. 66l0: charcoal, l-lO: JuniAta, 10.
All sheets over 2s inches vide, cent per pound extra.
STEEL-Bczt quality refined tool stesi square naa,
and Octagen, from IS to inch, lie per ID 10 and
ais to inch, 3oc; Slo and 10 % inch. -; win-
~ plates, 10 e., machinery cast stesl .
10 inch round, II l-4c did ust plow stssA % IL
BY sle II l-3c spring ee caHt, "a 70 T. lie spring
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-06
The stzte strrrA-Savings BANK

The advantages of Savings Banks cannot he
over estimated The millions of dollars which
they hold belonging to the small but thrifty
business men and women, and the frugal and
industrious of our working population, rs an
evidence of their usefulness AMI beneficiary
results &a-sf<l1e-+-iTr'r%t-t-
Mill II Mil clul se44erss.l -..t- business cur
mechanics and IA ,ureIs,- t'tif- working women,
store clerks male and female WIAs..'s> .aa.s..e
be- rec-iVils Feeulas and renaa4.si ally lay. IN
the lay Of their prosperity, we would kindly
suggest to them the proPriety Of providing
against day If adversely and instead N
spending their surplus earnings in useless gew-
gaws and indigrstiblc edihles, they olcct some
safe and reliable institution wherein To- deposit
their spare dollars. and receive therefor a fair
rate Of interest..the first step toward making
a fortune Gat., q.
In tins connection, with pleasure We men
ton the .5rxrr+-rrr~r SAVINGS BaNK Of this
city, an institution which has proven itself u
be one of the safest, soundest, and most reiia-
Bic il the community. Tho moneys Of its
depositors are always securely and protit'hly
invested, which enables the managers to pay
a fair rate OF interest To its patrons. The
character Of its President Is iinancier is un-
questionable. while the tashicr and other
attaches of the bank are men Of unioubtod
business qualifications.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-06

Two Milesians were standin. at thu Fair-
mount water works, watching the big
wheels splashing the water, hen one Of
them remarked mike, isn't tins quarc
country, where they have to grind their
water before they can use il T.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-06

4 Pekn, H., woman WAS asked by the
preacher if her husband feared the Lord.
She replied: . Fear him Bless you hu
is So feared of Him that he never goes out
Sunday without taking his gun along with
H.,
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-06
THE CIGAR MAKERS.

~ VIII unions desiring changes The asidr~S,- q"
eurruSl bonding secretaries please state the name "a "a,
former secretary.
The following persons have male Applications i"f
membership ia the several unions ANY union having
charges prefer viii forward them Within thiry daAs
from The date ii application.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-06
Prince a. Co.'S Organs.

Splendid finish six stops price Sl25.
Terms So cash. $l5 monthly.
Money refunded if not satisfactory.
Reeds Tcng.lc ~ Music, ~ Van hurcr
street u = - ~fet
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-06

Racine schOolmaster forbids his Pu-
pills Ia eat turnips during school hours.
The rights Of children are fcariully inter
fered with in these days.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-06
Louisville.


For local trade AnthracitepeF 1900 lbs delivered
Crate q s. Egg, u 80 Chestnut, q ", Stove
ao
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-06

steel. rs 10 1Sxl-s N SIG l4e German spring. best
refined IL TO 4, 81 agricultural east, reaper and
seythe. Is lac agricultural hoe 10 2 fork, llc rail
road, cast Lowmot axles Is l-2c axes, IL lie
slide bars plain 10 liz forged, l2e; erankpins, plain,
IA l2 forged Ice piston rods, IL lee frog points,
Is Lee side bars, IL DC.
TIN PLATE. -iC. iOxI4, sl9 SO; TX. 1Oxl4. sl4 80.
IL. Roofing, l4x2O, SO 10; bar Tin, 4Oc per H.. l1g
Tin, Ale per h.; Lead, Sc per HI Solder 2tc per ID
MISCELLANEOUS Pick. ia spnile and roller
STEEL TIRE 10 Tx ID and SIG 'ach, tire
lengths, 034 rs aud ks 10 and 7sNl4 ,.'ch, tire
tpths, 10 IA; 34X3-l and rs and lxlS inch, tire
lengths II 81 "a and 5sNl inch, tire lengths l3i4,
cast steel tire. cents extra.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-06

THE journeymen st"necutters propose
celebrating the approaching oath Of June
by giving grand ball and concert IN the
evening at the West Side Turner Hall.
a committee of arrangements Joseph
McWhirter, James O. lIaycr, A. Duncan,
H. Britt, G. Laughlin, II. Hod4son, J.
kcarlIs, W. Anderson, L. Harrington.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-06

THE TRUST DEPARTMENT
Will receive deposits and issue certifi-
Gates bearing 1-2 per cent interest.
Will receive and execute Trusts. and
invest money for individuals, Estates.
Corporations, and Societies, for any
amount, and on short OF long time, Sc
CURED by Real Estate or good collater-
ais. as may be desired
Ladies' and others unaccustomed to
business, desiring advice as TO their in
vestment of money for interest and the
care oft, or any other subject incident
to the Trust Department, will receive
prompt and courteous attention from
Officers Of the Bank.
THE SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
Receives Deposits of any amount from
eve cents upward, and allows interest
at rate of six per cent. per annum.
Married women and children may de-
pOsit in their own name.
Foreign Exchange sold at lowest
rates.
Entrance to Ladies' Department from
Market st.
ioiiN , 6EiikE, Executive
Il Rx 9, Fo |TEEsp COMMITTEE
This Bank has always paid its depOs-
itors in full on demand, without requir-
ing any thirty or sixty days notice.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-06

BOILKRz SLIDIEa ScALE.-When common bar iron :
selling At BE Ia the Pittsburgh market, pu,bling n
Chicago IS q. 90 per ton. Every 10 oh selling
rates will add or diminish pudding Csc per ton.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-06

gutiations for lots aud houses can be conduct
ed with Mr.. Crafts, at his office, N. w. cor
ner Randolph and laSalle streets.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-06

Mass Meeting or TAILoRs. We learn
it is the intention Of the journeymen
tailors &C Chicago shortly to hold a mass
meeting, to take into consideration the
general state Of trade Also to adopt the
most feasible means to secure rc-organl-
zation Of the craft, and discuss the merits
mittcd for their adoption.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-06

This beautiful village, which has about it the
natural enchantment of a most beautiful land
scapr. with the added charm of blooming gar
dens, green front yards, beautiful dwellings,
parks. churches and schools, broad and gravel
eel streets, and a commanding panoramic view
Of Chicago, while removed from the roar Of its
infinite commerce and its endless industries,
is located on an elevation of land on the Ga
lena Division of the q. Il N. w. X r., mile
and quarter west of the car shops. Mr.
Crafts is also large owner in this vicinity,
and it has been mainly through enterprises
conducted by him that the village has now
attained population Of 1900.
As heafthful, beautiful and inviting home,
the advantages of Austin are unequalled.
The travelled streets, so feet wide, and lined
with shade trees, are kept clean and dry by
splendid system of sewerage and natural
drainage No liquor is sold, and solid growth
and solid thrift, with temperance, morality.
pleasant neighbOrhoOd relations and social
culture, are characteristics Of the town. The
lots, which are IT'S feet deep To 20 feet alleys.
sell from SIS to $50 foot Another year OF
two Of growth will double these prices. Easy
terms are offered to those buying 20 bald
Title good and printed abstracts Furnished
Austin is the town seat Of the town Of Cicero,
and has large town hall and three church
organizations. A number OF pleasant drives
lead TO the city, with accem by rail BY IA
] trains daily. at cheap Communication fars. Ne
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[tJhicial. ]

lOtlicIal.
HEADqr ARr1Rs CIGAR MAKERs I'm. UNION ~ n. A.
CLEVELAND, May 20, 1874.
IT, He Ogiccrs anil Mcmters ot C'yT Mixers
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-21
in hay at present prices will nearly if

In hay at present prices viii nearly if
not quite pay for the grain.
There is not sufficient strength in
hay to support the muscles Of the
horse, and IF fed on 1t alone for long
time there is certain to be great fall
ing of of the muscle strength, although
the usual amount of flesh may be re-
tanned. Corn ia the ear, if sound and
well cured, is good grain for horses in
cold weather, as 1t is heating and of
sufficient strength when they are not
at hard work; shelied corn is not a safe
feed, IS it is very liable to have been
heated and is almost invariably dusty.
Eor several weeks previous to the com
mencemeut Of hard work, oats should
be the grain fed, as there is no other
grain that contains SO much muscle sus-
tanning element, and they are cooling tC
the blood. An occasional feed of roots,
either carrots, parsnips or potatoes 1--WE
prefer the former to horses during the
winter is of great value. Another i'm
portant item is salt; a small feed OIL
this at least three times a week should
not be omitted. Many of our best
practical horsemen keep salt before
their no; ses constantly, and recommend
it in strong terms. Ohio Farmer.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-21
Two Rich Men.

A New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette writes: ''The chief
holder of personal estate in this city is
Commodore Vanderbilt, who is esti-
mated at $40, 900, 600, the largest part of
which is in railway property. He owns
enough in the Connecticut River and
New Haven roads. to be a director in
each, and he also owns the controlling
interest in the Central, Hudson, and
Lake Shore, besides his stock in Ohio
and Mississippi and other important
roads. It was said of George Peabody
that he made almost the entire bulk of
bis enormous wealth after his fftieth
year. l think stronger statement can
be made Of the Commodore, for he has
made the largest part of his money since
he was sixty-that is, within the last
score of years. I suppose that when
the war broke out he was not worth five
millions. The incessant and enormous
increase of railroad values and the col
Ossal extent of his operations have
brought an increase so stupendous
as to remind us of the old stories of
Oriental magic. The only instance in
which real and personal estate Is COM
bined almost equally in the vast pos
sessions of one individual is found in
A. T. Stewart. He owns enough in
each of these shapes of wealth to make
a dozen men rich. In point of real
estate he has two dry goods establish
ments on Broadway; also the Metropol-
itan hotel, and the former Unitarian
church. Add to these the Baptist
church in Amity street now used as the
stable of his business teams, the De
peau row, in Blocker street, and above
all his Fifth avenue palace, which cost
81, 900, 600. In personal estate Is his
stock in trade, capital and bills receiva-
BILE, which must be $4,000, 900, and
also large quantity of bank stock. In
this manner Stewart Yields both
classes of property. He has diff
fered entirely from Vanderbilt in this
point. The latter has invested almost
solely In railway stocks, while the
former has eschewed this form of prop
erty in a very peculiar manner. He
has strong affinity for those things
which pertain to trade and 10 this alone.
It is said that his estate cannot be less
than $40 600 GOO
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-21
An Educated Chinaman's Ideas.

Hong Chin Foo, q Chinese exile, who
has been educated in the United States,
has lectured in Rochester. He said that,
of all the people the Chinese came in
contact with, the Americans were most
liked. While hundreds of young China
men were sent to this country to be
educated not one was ever sent to Eng
land or France. The people who came
TO this country, as a rule, did not prop
erly represent the Chinese nation. They
were low and ignorant, and the treat
ment they received here from the lower
classes did not give them any compli-
nentary or truthful character of the
American people. He explained the
reason why American missionaries la
bored under such great disadvantages
in China. He said that the Chinese had
been taught by Oonfucius TO regard
prop-iety of conduct as of the utmost
Importance. There was but one way
for their clothes to be fashioned, one
way IN which to sit, stand, walk, and
but one formula to be observed II the
duties of life. In this country the
speaker had observed the utmost free
dom IN these regards, and Americans
taking their habits with them to China,
greatly shocked the sensibilities of that
nation. For instance, they would speak
to the ladies and hand things to them
deeds which were gross insults IN their
eyes. Then they would hold converse
ton with people Of the lower classes,
which effectually debarred them from
intercourse with the upper circles of
society,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-21
Exercise ana Grain for Horses.

Very many farmers who own good
horses do not appreciate the importance
of little grain and give them regular
exercise in winter. At this season of
the year farmers horses are frequently
left standing Ia the stable for weeks at
a time, eating unlimited quantities of
hay, and when taken out submit
ted to violent exercise with their st0m-
achs overloaded with undigested hay.
A year or two OF this management is
almost certain to bring on heaves, an
incurable disease that very seriously
depreciates a horse for work and ruins
him for market. The horse has com
paratively smaller stomach than any
other animal, and never should be driv-
en- hard Immediately after eating heart
ily of hay or after drinking, as it is GER
tain to cause a permapent injury that
will develop itself In time.
It is not economy to keep horses
through the winter without grain,
With a little grain every day and one
half the hay that most farmers feed,
horses will come ont Of the winter much
better fitted for the springs work than
when the grain is omitted, land the saving