Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-12
AT SCHOOL.

| AT SCHOOL.
| building associations in prosperous op-
Grafton. The custom, even then, of SELL
ing to people of small means a 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
| a 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
reasonable price. The markets are
large, abundant and well supplied with
almost everything from stewed terrapin
to picked pemmican.
The water supply is a 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 e-thing- and-another bucket
that hanged in the we'll, is at times as
productive of injurious results as the
wine cup
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
a rathole under my desk. Once the ty-
| phoid fever broke out in our school and
carried off enough of my class in Sallust
so that ! 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 vel cleaned out
They found at that time, as near as
can recall the circumstance after so long
a time, three moss covered buckets that
had disappeared many years before,
| gallon Of angleworms that had died in
one another's arms, venerable diction-
airy Of the English language, black
board eraser, an old Bay State shawl,
a ladder, a tin dinner pail, a pair of yarn
mittens and a 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 al the way along the scale from
the iron bridge of commerce down to
the unassuming ak helve Of the work-a-
day world. 1t 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
/ 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 if one wishes to use more
he must do it at his own risk and his
| own expense.
The Matailde Adler Loeb Dispensary
is a free-for-all institution founded by
Mr.. and Mrs. Abraham Adler There
/ Is diSO d hCLue lOT ASeu anu lLlllIL lSrd-
elites, with capacity of 100 inmates. l
do not know why it should be SO large.
The information that there is POSSIBLE
| ity of the time coming when there will
be 100 Israelites in this country who can
not take care Of themselves and loan
money to others will come to many of
my readers ike clap of 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 it,
but will bet new pack of foxhounds
against two bushel bag of anise seed
and full cry that the institution is
filled with colored people. No colored
man is going to allow nice new hospi-
tai to remain vacant SO long as he can
| disembowel Lis foot with an AK and then
get nursed back to health again.
The broad spirit of kindness 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 laudable
| to degree. do not know what it is
to be laudable to a degree, but the ex-
| pression occurs in q book which am