The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-15

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AT SCHOOL
building associations in prosperous OPP
Grafton. The custom, even then, Of SELL
ing to people of small means lot and
home, to be paid for in the shape Of rent,
was quite general and successful. Every
thing is done here to foster the home.
The fostering hand Of Philadelphia has
steady job, winter and summer.
The food supply Of this city is practi-
cally unlimited. One can always buy
things here for eating purposes, and at
q reasonable price. The markets are
large, abundant and well supplied with
almost everything from stewed terrapin
to picked pemmican.
The water supply is source of great
local pride, and much Of the good health
of the community seems to be due to
that. Physicians tell me that open wells
should be looked upon with much sus-
picion. and | believe that to be true.
Much poison is engendered in open wells
by the decay Of insects alone, which fall
in and are unable to get out again until
decomposition has taken place. Other
animal life also conceals itself in the
bottom Of the well, so that the old oaken
bucket. the one-thing- and-another bucket
that hanged in the well, is at times as
productive of injurious results as the
wine cup.
l remember that we had a school we'll
near the gothic dugout in which used
to read Horace and Veritas, with my
thoughts far away in the Greek and Ro-
man suburbs and my little soiled toe in
= rathole under my desk. Once the ty-
phoid fever broke out in our school and
carried off enough Of my class in Sallust
30 that l was almost at the head. /
guess / would have been at the head Of
the class If it had not occurred to the
teacher to have the water analysed and
the well cleaned out.
They found at that time. as near a. l
can recall the circumstance after SO long
q time, three moss covered buckets that
had disappeared many years before, a
gallon of angleworms that had died in
one another's arms, venerable diction-
airy of the English language, a black
board eraser, an old Bay State shawl,
. ladder, . tin dinner pail, a pair Of yarn
mittens and . former teacher named
Rider, who had disappeared the day be-
fore he was to come to our house to
board. And yet we lived as well at the
time as most of the neighbors did.
The manufactures of Philadelphia are
very extensive. and said to be greater
than in any other city of the Union, ex-
tending all the way along the scale from
the iron bridge Of commerce down to
the unassuming az helve of the work-a-
day world. It is safe to say that the
city is one of the most prosperous in this
respect within the borders of our trim
little republic.
The exports of Philadelphia used to
double every five years, but whether
this ratio has been maintained recently
l have not the data at hand for ascer-
tanning, and on the instructions for
pushing the bell button in my room ! do
not see any authority which will war
rant my ringing for more data. Each
room is supposed to be supplied with all
the data it ought to have at one time,
presume, and il one wishes to use more
be must do it at his own risk and his
own expense.
The Mathilde Adler Loeb Dispensary
is free-for-all institution founded by
Mr.. and Mrs. Abraham Adler. There
is also Home for Aged and lnfirm Isra.
elites. with a capacity Of 100 inmates.
do not know why it should be SO large.
The information that there is possibil.
ity Of the time coming when there will
be 100 lsraelites in this country who can.
not take care of themselves and loan
money to others will come to many OF
my readers like clap af thunder from
clear sky.
1t is dedicated to the relief OF the SICK
and wounded. without regard to creed,
color or nationality" That throws more
light on the subject. did not visit 1t,
but will bet a new pack of foxhoundi
against two bushel bag Of anise seed
and full cry that the institution il
filled with colored people. No colored
man is going to allow nice new hospi.
tai to remain vacant 20 long as he car
disembowel his foot with saa ax and then
get nursed back to health again.
The broad spirit of kindliness and gen
erosity shown in the construction Of
these and many other institutions in
Philadelphia is manifest everywhere
and to be called the City of Brotherly
Love is an ambition which is laudablt
to degree. do not know what it ii
to be iaudable to a degree. but the ex
preston occurs in book which an
now reading and thought l weais
use It.
Sometimes We find charity and toler
ance where we would least expect It
and rice persa. In North Carolina
where may now be regarded IS SUN
mer resident, taxpayer and fellow 0iti
zen, there is, in some parts Of the state
. strong religious sentiment which mus
be extremely gratifying to factiona
deity. do not know, of course. how
prayer is received ut the Throne Q
Grace which is ticketed as coming from
the Reformed Or Established or Re-es
tablished This-that-or-the-ot other Churcl
South, OF the Hardshell Aquatic churcl