The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-01-21

traordinary power of appreciation and SYM
pathy. One can best estimate men and women
by their relations or proportions TO otner
human creatures. OF Mr.. Carnegie 1t may be
said there is only one of him, and every day
experience shows that when there Is only one
of a kind they are not easily replaced. lie was
born of humble parentage-from q pecuniary
point of yiew-but his father had received q
good education and was a man OF unusual IN
telligence, even among the canny Scots; while
his mother, who still lives, and whom ne
reyerences and treats with the tenderness of a
lover, the worship offered to q saint and the
homage due to a Queen, is q woman OF rare
mental endowments and strength OF character.
Certainly the highest and best that is in him
must come from her, for mother and son are
the same In the courage and honesty OF their
convictions, in insight, in depth and reach OF
thought, and in the sympathy with all created
things, which fills the lives who garner 1t full
of unutterable music and sweetness.
Perhaps it will be thought that the mother
of Mr.. Carnegie should not be mentioned here,
for her life is now secluded and she is seldom
seen in any assemblage; almost the last time
was when she acted as the queenly hostess on
the occasion of a magnificent reception given
at the Windsor Hotel (his New York hOme) by
Mr.. Matthew Arnold, and the Difference
shown the aged lady by the most distinguished
personages, and their recognitions of her adj
mirable character and mental gifts must have
gladdened the heart of the loyal son.
1t was in 1S45 that the family removed to
this country, and his first earnings were as q
telegraph messenger at a salary of $3.50 per
week. He now, in connection with his brother,
controls four of the largest iron and steel
works in this country, besides owning an inter
est in many similar enterprises. In order TO
influence public sentiment in Great Britain he
has purchased several newspapers In England
and Scotland, and now has a more or less con-
trolling interest in eighteen popular and well
known papers, seven of which are dailies-
evening papers-aDd eleven wecklies, with an
average circulation of over 100000 of copies:
With all this genius for taking on care and
multiplying his business responsibilities MIR.
Carnegie does not seem oppressed by them
He is most genial and courteous of manner, an
effective speaker and fluent writer as may be
seen by a glance at two books he has found
time to write and publish-"Round the
World" and a 'sFour-in-Hand"-the latter the
record Of a trip made some four years ago with
a party whom he took out on the steamship
Bothnia as his guests, supplementing the jour
ney with a six weeks coaching trip through
England and Scotland, and celebrating his
mothers birthday by taking her and the whole
party to his native town in order that he might
lay the foundation stone of a free library
which he presented to Dumferline at a cost of
$4,000; he had previously endowed it with
free baths at a cost of the same sum. New
York has been benefited by the Carnegie La
at a cost of $50, OOO, and BraddOck,
Pa, by the presentation of a free library,
which is not yet completed. Pittsburg was of
fered one but the municipality declined to ac-
cept 1t because it would have to be maintained.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars Mr.. Carnegie has
expended in scholarships in the Royal College
of Music in London, while his minor benefac-
tions are as the sands of the sea. He knows
too well the value of money, however, and has
too just an appreciation of what it can do to
throw it away on useless and worthless objects;
in one way or another his money is always eX-
pended to aid in the intellectual and moral adj
vancement of the people. He credits to repub-
dean institutions all the results of his own
eareer-the possibility of taking the boy earn
ing $3.50 per week and making him as a man
The peer of those ''born in the purple" But
every boy does not become the peer of the
scholar, the rich man, the philosopher, the re-
iormer, the philanthropist and the true gen.
leman, and the boy who becomes all OF
these by the force of his W unaided facul-
ties possesses the lements of greatness
within himself and would have risen to dis
tinctiOn anywhere.
Since his return. to his native land and set
Element in BROOKLYN natural attraction has
drawn Mr.. Moncure Conway to the Nineteenth
Century Club and made him one of its familiar
figures. Mr.. Conway looks something like
Matthew Arnold, and reminds one of him, but
is face is less rugged-has not the deep lines
of Matthew Arnold-thOugh it is perhaps as
expressive of the lines of thoughtful work Up
on which both lives have been spent. Mr..
Conway is one of those men who make them
selves felt wherever they are. A Virginian by
birth, he graduated from Dickinson College,
Pa, and took up the study of the law at a
time when the growth of an opposite public
opinion was stimulating Southern pro-slayery
prejudice to it's EXTREMIST height. A man
must be all that local sentiment demanded of
him or nothing. Mr.. Conway took up the
cudgel for freedom and humanity; he threw
up the law and with it the prospect of a bril-
liant future and began to study and preach the
Gospel. He was born in 1892; in 1852 he went
to Harvard and studied theology, accepting
two years later the call to a Unitarian church
in Washington. His anti-slavery sermons,
however, led TO his dismissal, and after an
ether trial in Cincinnati, where trouble arose
from the same cause, he took up the work OF
professional writer and lecturer. He edited
the Boston Commonwealth and became an ac-
knOwledged power. When he went to Eng
land in 1863 it was for the purpose of influence
ing public opinion there through the press and
of confronting Southern with the
testimony of an anti-slavery Southerner. But
England has n fashion of its own of absorbing
the really able men and women who make
their quality known. Mr.. Conway wrote and
lectured and shortly received a call which he
accepted, to the ministerial office in connec-
ton with the South Place Chapel and shortly
became a recognized part of the intellectual
life of the great metropolis. But he has never
lost his interest in or his connection with the
living issues lat home.n His letters of many
wears to the Cincinnati Commercial were the
most quoted and famous of any from the great
metropolis, while his house was always open
and must be most gratefully remembered by
thousands of Americans who shared the kind
and grateful hospitality which Mr.. and Mrs.
Conway were always ready to dispense. Mr..
Conway is a man of convictions, and has the
courage of them. He is still in the prime of
life, though his mentality has got the best of
his vital force somewhat, and caused him to
bend forward so as to give him a look of great
er age than really belongs to him. Already he
is felt as a new force in the field of thought
and mental and moral progress, and has more
upon his time than is good for the inn
literary work in which he is engaged
Leaving out all reference to the lectures
which, first and last, represent every phase OF
active intellectual life and thought, these are
of the figures which would be pointed out
as notable at any meeting of the Nineteenth
Century Club, and these and the methods EN-
ployed will serve to indicate some of the reas-
ons why it is famous. JENNIE JUNE.
rigid mother in Bath, Me-, has succeeded
in having her daughters beau arrested and
a%rraigned for staying too late in her house at
The Bath papers cut the affair short Z