davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04
Doings OF tho Lime KILN Club,

sSD0 - INV A1kWO 1A1ho NuUWs
de Secretary will read de foIlerin
commuDicashun, said the President o.
the meeting opened. B:
BRO. GARDNER. Several of you
friends desire to know how you stand
on the question of charity this fall. Doet
the club propose to donate anything tc
local charity this winter? :
Respectfully, Four FRIENDS.
As to de fust query said the Presi.
dent as he drew himselfup, de answers
dat l have heretofore given mus stand
fur de answer now. Do charity of Dc.
troit has q race of beggars who will
nebber leave US. 1t has added to de
loaferism an encouraged de idleness
an gineral shiftlessness. 1t has said
to de- heads offamilies Idle de sum
mer away, an yon shall be supported
durin' de winter! Go ask de- Poo
Superintendent If de same persons doan
return var after var? Ask him If
men an women have not come to look
upon a poo fund as DER right an II
they doan demand DER allowance, i'll
stead of asking for it? Charity filled
de kentry wild trarnps. When charity
tried to undo its work de tramps began
to burn barns an murder women an
chill'en.
Charity has encouraged drove of
five hundred beggar chill'en to march
up an down cherry resident street. 1t
has wasted its tears upon brutes of
men, an its money has gone
to feed people 90 vile an wicked
dat de State prison ached to receive
'em.
A. to de second query, dar' am q
W van ein w mex d, doah e Sir
rent for months past? Charity? No,
gem lem charity neber h'ars of any
body but bold-freed beggar. Our
friend, heah, Sir Issac, has not only
kept de roof ODER de ole man g head but
has furnished him with many q meal to
eat.
up on Grove street, near de cabin OF
Waydown Bebee, am poo ole woman
dat has gone blind. Brudder Bebee an
odder mem bers has Clipped in to take
car Of her, an whateber she has had
de pas summer or has got now am due
to DER kindness. Town charity hast
diskibered her yet.
up on Scott street, clus to de cabin |
Of Whalebone Howker, dar was death
de odder day an two chill'en war left |
alone IN de house until de lanlord turn
I'd EN- out into de street On charity
walked of an Brudder Howkcr took de |
orphans home an will keep 'em frew
De winter.
sup my way dar' am a sick man
who wants medicine-a boy wild a |
broken leg who wants nourishin' food
. woman who has had a long run of
fever widout her rent fallin' behind or
her chill'en goin' hungry. Let de cry
Df distress come to Pickles smith,
Judge Cadaver, Samuel Shin, Rev.
Penstock or any odder member who kin
spare from his purse or his table, an it
am promptly answered. We know
,ur nayburs and we are maturity.
We found no hospitals, establish NO
headquarters, an issue no call
or odder cities to send in DER paupers
o be supported, but our naybur finds
Is at his sick bed, an misfortune finds
'ur purses open. He who has charity
II his heart need not 20 huntin' fur de
100 to relieve an fur reporters to puff
leir gifts. Charity dat rides aroun' town
N fo'-hoss wagin will see workin'
nan starve an feed loafer who has
pent half his summer In de saloons.
let US drap de subjick an proceed to
'iZness.'
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04
Our First Number
FOR FALL.

! You will see many adver
tisements about large stock
of Fall and Winter Goods
and each one will claim X
be ahead of their competitor,
but we will be content t.
let the readers OF the RE
PUBLICAN know we have Z
Larger Stock than usual, be.
cause our trade demands it
and this is an evidence tina,
our goods are sold at as low
|prices as elsewhere, or a lit.
tie lower for same quality.
Our Children's Stock is
complete. We do not near
by that to tell you we KEEP
the low price shoddy
goods, but we do have a
Good Quality at a very low
price, and yet we sell more
of our Suits from Five to Ten
Dollars.
In our Boys Department
we have some very stylish
garments to show you, while
the young men cannot help
being. pleased by making a
selection from our nobby
Styles.
We have over 20 Styles
to show you in our Mems
Department, and now, kind
reader, just visit US at your
earliest convenience and let
us show YOU our goods, and
see if it will not be to our
mutual interests to deal with
each other.
This does not Dive vo,,
much Of an idea Of our Stock,
but if you will stop in at 4th
and Market streets, at the
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04
DIR. SIMMS'
Vegetable Pills,
The Perfection OF Pills.

VOKotWWI6 FIIID9
MAnkind's Fav0rlte Pills.
The NEST famous liver medicine on earth.
No gripping, sickness or weakness attend thoiI
operation. They do not leave the bowels COS.
tive. They tone and strengthen the LSvss,
and act on the kidneys, stomach and skin,
curing liver complaint, sick headache, neu.
ralgia biliousness pain In the sides or back,
pain In the bowels, Kidneys or bladder, etc.
Very valuable In dyspepsia, nalarial fever or
dumb ague chills and fever, general weak.
ness, loss VI appetite. etc. They are splendid
for weakly females rs an assistant to keep the
system healthy They are endorsed and 70.
commended by thousa ids as the incest Dur.
gstive and splendid liver medicine. Elegant.
ly sugar coated; Is cents box; family boxes
In one 81. Sent by mail. Sold by leading
dealers In medicines, Main depot, Fourth
and King streets, Wilmington, Del., and o0s
Arch street, Philadelphia. nov22-u
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04
A Practical and succ essrul

business Is always based on: First, per-
sonal integrity. Second, gentlemanly
demeanor. Third and last, good goods
and low prices. These prerequisites are
always found ut the Great Tobacco Mart
Seventh and Orange street. Chapman,
proprietor.
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04
Among the Mosi Popular

Portable Heaters IL the Excelsior; also
the Saxon hot mir furnace, for which VIZ
are sole agents. SchBn's Heater.
Range and Stove HOUSE, 200 to 213
shipley street.
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04
Attention.

1000 cigars Just resolved from hrst-class
ihctorfos. Gall 1t the Delaware Tobacco
Agency, 106 East Second street.
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04

*. KILNE'S GREAT NERVE RE
H.. etorer 10 the wonder Of the so fbrall
a.s olseR son. All fN st.,pl Ell ffes. Sud
vol Arch street, Philadolphis, Pa.
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04

I'M E HARVEST HOME CANOPY AND
l. Apollo Ranges, and the boauti full
Opera ParlOr stove are supplied with the du,
plex CRATE, acknowledged and recommended
by every one having them In use to be the
best crate ever made. We take the lead in
the stove trade and give our customers the
very best goods for the money In tho market
To beAcOnvinced of this. VIC invita- any one
IN IN need OF frstclass stoves at low prices to
lar Delaware stove and range depot, Nos.
and . +. Fourth street. H. F. PICKELS
Proprietor. nSlm
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04

lhlCAGO DRESSED BEEF.-MR. RIP.
,learey ia selling at his meat store, No.
fAlng street, the best Chicago dressed
~, mutton, pork, sausage and beef rolls.
Iich no Ia purchasing T ON M essrs. Sswdcn
n,ould daily at their large refrigerator In
W. wy, and Is selling 1t retail ut extremely
~ NJ. prices. All are invited TO call AT his
f"'' oil King street, ind be convinced.
d3-6t
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04
IN 1lLED EXCUHSIOa YOB aae
TOPH1LADELPHlAA AMI kECUkN.
Reduction Of fAre 70 Chester, Hook snd PhilH
delphis.
On and after December 3,

The swift, hvoFits and
o0mm0diOus steamer.
ss1. II. FELTON,1 - A|Nf1A
Sunday. Returning,
lesyssOhestnut street wharf at ESQ D. n.Y,rs
10 Chester or a0ok. 100. To Philad eipbta, la
excursion. 25c Excursion tickets to P1iilA.
will DO sold on the boat good to return By tbs
T. W. 4 b. Il. X. ON accommodation uainS
only, at q rate Of TO.
mle-u Wilmington Steamboat ",
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04

NOOD HOUSES FOR SALE-I OF. -
" for for sale on easy terms, Wis: A
snsll cash payment and moderate monthly
payment Of Interest and on account Of princf.
pal, the following property: Brick house, .
rooms and bath, l0l6 Elm stsest, q, 0OO; brick
house., rooms and bath, SIDE yard s0d front
porch, u Lincoln street, q, 600; two frame
yards and trout pofches, each q, 600; brick
house, rooms, No. 10 Townsend street, a.
S00; four cottage frame houses. Sth street be.
tween Union and Lincoln streets. each q ,O00.
8EOR0E ". BUSH, French street wharf.
n2k-lm
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04

NJ VTlCE-JUST RECEIVED 800 BUSH
n es Of spplos and for sale cheap. Ind
- otangs. (081-t1 JOHN PYLE.
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04
NHANGE OF TIME.
. STEAMER WILNINGTO,

ON AND AFTER WEDNESDAY NOV. I'll,
STEAMER WILMINGTON"
For PhilsdslphiA s.-,
Chester, d Marcus
Hook, leaves Fourth
street wharf at 8 o. m.
Returning leaves Phil
adelphia at $50 p. m.
Sundays leavesR Philadelphia at s.sop m.
Freight received at Philadslphia unit u
the boat leaves, ut Wilmington ell day.
nok.0
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04

DOAKUIN1 FOR GENTLEMEN
- Pleasant rooms and good location. Also
table Doarders taken. bO2 Warrington street.
S-3t4
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04

QOARD-GOUD BOARD AND PLEAS
- antr0Oms at 6l0 Market street. n3O-8t
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04

QOARDIN9-fOk MAN AND WIFE
~ also single gentleman, ut No. 400 East
Fourth street. n27.ot:
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04

NOR SALE-a6 NEW HOUSES, PRICE
e 1900 To $4,000. A chance for good
Investment. Only $500 In cash Is wanted on
three small ones. Also houses and stores TO
rent Il. H. TlNDALL, 70l French street.
n30-1m
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04

NOR RENT-ONEHALF OR THE EN-
I tire store, No. bl6 Market street, for
one or three years. CHklSTF1ELDA BEST.
n30-lN
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04

nOR sAI4E-PERSONs DESIRING TO
u buy hoasss or building lots In this city
should pressure tho monthly catalogue Of pro-
ps1ty for sale, Issued for rec distribution by
+ II. GREGG, Clayton House Building.
sp1b.u
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04

EVOk SALE-25 SHOATS AT$6 EACH
T. Robert Porter, hrst farm on Hare's Cor.
ner Road. dist
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04

NOK BALE-ThE MCDANIEL FARM IN
IN Mill Creek Hundred, containing $50
scrss Of land In good cultivation, and build.
ings In hrst-olass eYdor. win be- sold bar
gain and on easy terms. SAMUEL Gull
BERT, 100 Shipley street. nlt.llndAw
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04

NOR SALE--STOCK AND flXTURES
L ofsegar store, Front and King streets
Lists
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04
EOR SALE

NOR SALE OR RENT-A THkEE.
l story brick house, No. 1890 West Front
street having rooms and good side yard
saloon, bakery or boarding house. VIII rent
low TO o good tenant. Apply 70 THOMAS
X LALLY, COW Market street. diff
Daily Republican., 1883-12-04

ENOR RENT-A ROOMS. APPLY AT
Il No. nj West Third street. d3-3tt
National Republican., 1883-06-30
The nsIencc or rrndc.

Joseph Nimmo, chief Of the bureau Of sta
tistics of Che Treasury department has just
issued his monthly statement of the foreign
commerce of the United States for May and
for the eleven months ending May 81
From this il appears that the balance Of trade
in favor of the United States for the eleven
months amounted to :s11O.9iG332 1t is prob
able that the balance of trade in favor
of the United states for the year
ending June 80 will not vary
more than $I,OOO,OOO or $2,OOO,OOO from
this amount Tho favorable character of
this rather handsome balance in our favor is
indicated by the fact that during the fiscal
year ending juno 80, 1852, tho balance in our
favor amounted to only S2j9O36S2. II will
be remembered that the crops of 1881 was
bad, aud that lso2 was an unusually good
crop year Tho advantages accruing TO MS
from this good crop did not bogin TO make
itself felt in the exports until October of last
year, since which timo each month has shown
considerable balance in our favor The
total value of imports of merchandise into
the United States for the twelve months end
ing May 81, 1ss3, was LOGS Is2, as against
72o,s7o,73i during the preceding year, and
tho value of exports of merchandise from the
United States during the year ending May 81,
1858, was Se2o .lo313l us against S5G?,ol i5io.
Tho exports from the United States during
each month from October 1852, toand includ-
ing May, 1854, were quito largely in excess of
the exports during the same period the year
preceding whereas the value of imports of
merchandise during the last four months have
been less than the imports during the same
period of the preceding year.
National Republican., 1883-06-30

Legitimate trade IS iilched away from us by un-
strupulOus dealers. We arc held up to public
gaze as ignorant aud reckless individuals who
tamper with the lives and the health of our Gus
lomes. newly.myented profession called tau
itary engineering has como to light. II proposes
10 protect humanity agofust its insidious enemy
the plumber. Boards ofhonlth, too, lend their aid
to these magniloQucnt braggirts by frownng
upon our practical SKIN and experience, and in.
ldorsing book. taught experts anu newspaper
scientists. IL is fact that the men whose pur-
suits lie closer to the sanitary problems the day
than any other are ostentatiously ignored, and
the claims of raw graduates from medical or other
schools are bra1enly thrust in the face of the
public. -ar..ftr ,tt.r
From which II appears that tho master
plumbers not only deprocatc tho idea of
manufacturers selling their goods to con-
sumers, because as they state at has the
effect of having plumbing done by uuregis-
tered and inexperienced persons" but they
cannot tolerate the idea of the id literary
fellows called sanitary engineers, overlook
ing or making any suggestions as to their
work.
In other words, these mon, who are nero
mechanics, and doubtless very good men and
very good mechanics in their line, who arc
mostly uncducatcd and know nothing of the
laws of hygiene or health, are avcrse to tho
idea OF educated scientists making suggcs-
tions to people who build or occupy houses
as to the best means of protection against
such diseases ns aru the incidents Of i'm
proper plumbing Boards of health, supposed
to be constituted Of physicians of experience
aud standing are spoercd at by tho plumb.
ci's in CHS WISE
Good ground OF complaint is Afforded by thS
prcscut method ul appointed inspectors 10y tho
boards ofhcalth IN the lutgc cities. Plumbers arc
placed under the jurisdiction OF pcrsons whose
knowledge is derived from course of lectures in
popular college, or whose claims to Office are
backed up by influential politicians.
1t is very well and very proper for the an
cicnt and honorable order of master plumbers
TO meet together to drink and good thoughts
to exchange" to make show of their dia-
monds and highly colorcd badges, and to take
proper steps for organization and such other
legitimate business as may be presented; but
when they undertake to sneer ut scientific
men who have devoted their lives to the
study of tho laws of health they will simply
be laughed at and get no sympathy.
National Republican., 1883-06-30
Washington Statues.

Every one has fling at the statues in
Washington, and but very fe W have II good
word or word of praise for any of them
What is the matter with thcm-in what are
they lacking that they seem to please nobody
What do people expect statue to be? OBJ
an ideal of beauty, portrait of person who
has lived or is living, or u mixed kind of
thing between the two, where it is attempted
to retain the likeness and to symbolic heroic
deeds or words by giving heroic proportions
to the face or figure. OF tho ideal it is not
necessary to speak, as it is generally conceded
that subject many centuries ago. OF the por-
trait statue little is to be said, because so little
has over been attempted in that line, and that
little so cminontly unsatisfactory. Houdin's
statue of Washington and tho two statues of
Lincoln in the city are, perhaps, paradoxical as
it may sound, both the best and worst of their
semi portrait statues which include all the
rest. statue of this kind may be a success
rs u mixed metaphor in poetry or rhetoric.
What could be worse than Columbus on the
portico or Ethan Allen in the old hall of
representatives
As these styles are admitted failures, tho
sculpture, or is it TO have anya
The heroic size isabout seven feet in he ght.
Why is this size so generally adopted? 1t
comes. down TO us from antiquity, but why
was it adopted by the ancionts? Is it not be-
cause they associated greatness with super
human size? If this be so, tho idea is bar
barous and savage, albeit it is derived from
the aesthetic Greek.
Was it not because the statue was expected
to be looked at from such distance that the
perspective would reduce its proportion to
human size? If so, tho sharp outline of the
features would be lost and all delicacy of ex-
ocution and design thrown away.
Is there any good reason why the heroic
size should be copied in statues intended to
pcrpctu ate tho lineaments of distinguished
persons about whom it is expected that pos
tcrity will bo curious? The elevation of
statues OH pedcstals is evidently done in order
that they may be conspicuous and attract at
tcntion aiar Off But if they are wort at
tention or excite curiosity, people will desire
near view ofthem, SO that when approached
closely the upward anglo of sight is such
that they are so shortened as to lose their re-
scmblance to anything, What can be seen by
a bystandor of any of tho large equestrian
statues in Washington but the bottoms of the
boots and the bellies of the horses2
National Republican., 1883-06-30
Death TO the Dead Languages.

CharleS Francis ADAMS, Ir., delivered
an address last night before the Harvard
chapter of fraternity of the Phi Beta Kappa
of Harvard university lie took strong
ground against the study of Greek in our col
leges to tho exclusion of modern languages.
The colleges, he insisted, are pursuing n
course of study better fitted for the iiftccnth
than for the nineteenth century. The condi-
tions of life have greatly changed during the
past century, and especially SO during the
past thirty and forty years. The dead Ian
guages, having no use in actual life, he said,
are taught as II mere requirement to college
admission. The study of them as now pur-
sued is mere form, resulting in no benefit
to the vast majority of those who 90 to col
lcgc. Nothing useful or ornamental is de-
rived from the study of Latin and Crock.
The practical, therefore, has been sacrificed
to tho traditional, and nino.tonths of college
students sacrificed to the one-tcnth.
He therefore called halt in these matters.
The dead languages he contondcd, were not
merely useless in apractical sense, but they
were rernicious. Greek was not learned in
colleges. Their graduates could neither read,
write, nor speak the tongue of Periclcs and
Plato. Even if they could, ho thought they
would derive no benefit from the knowledge.
Because of this antiquatod curriculum Mr..
Adams claims that colleges fail properly to
fit their graduates for the work they have
got TO do in the life that awaits them. He ex-
prcssly said that he was not believer in that
narrow, scientific, and chronological training
which is now SO much cXtolled. A practical
and too often n nero vulgar money making
utility seemed to be its natural outcome.
Tho remedy for this state of affairs, he
thought, was simple and reasonable. Rccog-
nizng, as ovory intelligent modernist must,
that the command of several languages be-
sides that which is native to him is essential
to II literally educated man, he would ask
that the preference now afforded Greek and
Latin should no longer as now amount TO a
practical prohibition of the modern languages.
He would oilor as admission to college a
smattering of Greek as now. But If stu
dent preferred to be examined in modern
language he wanted him admitted to pursue
the college course, no matter how severe tho
examination, if he could pass.
mastery of the living tongues, simply as
an indispensable lore of trade or medium OF
speech, is what the scholar the professional
man, or the scientist of to-day must have or
be unequal to his work. They must be tlanght
in the colleges Greek is a fetch which
should no longer be wo' shipped. And the
avenues to modern life and living thought
must no longer be closed in the collogcsby tho
dry bones of reverence for dead super
sttion.
ffs ----a-----------t frft U.l
National Republican., 1883-06-30
au.Acu cprtcr-,

rho folio ing e a list of the branch oilccs ID
w,sniurton. Others viii be adued hereaftor
". 8. Rousrs News stands vt the AEESctoN
rorvt. wnpAnps llOrEi. and MErHoroLirAS
uoTEi-
RoosE & ouErNs News stand, NATIONAL HOTEL
p.F. QUEEN, ST. JAsus IlorRI"
RIGGS llousE News stand.
EnBirr House News stand.
AMERicAS llousE News stand.
VS.. THoNrsoN'S Drug Store
Gil. FIcKMNo's Drug Store, Georgetown.
!BrApLEY ADAMs's Book Stores
en- Drrour, Druggist, 1918 Fourteenth street
RIB FERGUSON. Druggist corner Second aud
PENNSYLVANIA avenues. Il.
s.E. LEWIS Druggist, corner Fourteenth and L
ttrcets
&C. C. slyNs. Druggist. corner Fourteenth and
New York avenue.
WI SCALA, Druggist. 500 Fast Capitol street
II. A JonNSToS, druggist corner Tenth aud Q
streets northwest,
s. sLArEn's Cigar Store corner and First
streets northwest
National Republican., 1883-06-30
Plumbers.

Th ere is growing disposition ON the part
of the representative men of the various
trades in this country to perfect organiza-
tions and hold stated meetings in tho intcr-
est of their several crafts. But recently the
undortakers held II convention aud discussed
all the matters appertaining to their partic-
ular trade.
In New York last week there was no
table assemblago of plumbers from all parts
of the union who held a very interesting
meeting in Masonic hall. 1t is said
by an observer from the gallery that dia-
monds sparklod on the hands OF the plumbers
as they exchanged greetings, and jewels
CLEANED in their shirt bosoms, which would
excite tho envy of tho hoto clerk or the
Niagara Falls hackman. Elegant badges of
highly colored silk and satin fringOd with
gold were conspicuous ON every coat lapel,
and altogether the scene presented was
moro like that of meeting of decorated
notables in some European city than that of
the members Of useful and respectable trade
inropublican America. Tho chief business
transacted was TO take measures to prevent
the practice of manufacturers of plumbers
materials from selling directly to consumers
which is considered by the plumbers as ille-
gtimate, and that It has the effect Of having
plumbing done by unregistered and inexperi-
enced persons, The gist of the whole matter
was most fully developed in an address read
by plumber Enoch Remick, from which W,
make some extracts;
Itisa general feeling among plumbers that oui