The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-01-09

popular and well known papers, seven VI
which are dallies-evenlng paPersLiatlnI.u
eleven weeklies, with an average clrcuIatiUn
of over 900 copies. WITH al this eeLiIu;;
for taking on care and multiplying MS pusl.
ness responsibilities Mr.. Carnegie does MOI
seem oppressed by them. He is most gen;iai
and courteous of manner, an effective
speaker and fluent writer, as may De
seen by q glance at two books ne mas
found time to write and pnoIsn-
.tRnnnd the World'' and a "Four-in-
Hand'i-the latter the record of a trip Ihade
some four years ago with party whom ne
took out on the steamship Bothnia as ms
guests. supplementing the journey WIN =
SIN weeks coaching trip through England
and Scotland, and celebrating his mother
birthday by taking her and the whole party
IN his native town in order that he might iay
the foundation stone ola free library wh n6d
he presented to Dumferline at cost OF s22,uVG
he had previously endowed 1t with 1ree pa ts
at n cost of the same sum. New YORK has
been benefited by the Carnegie Laboratory a6
a cost of 1000 and Braddock, Pa, by the
presentation of free library, which IS not
vet completed. Pittsburg was onered one,
but the municipality declined to accept !! ot
cause it would have to be malntalned.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars Mr.. Carnegie
has expended in scholarships in the Royal
College of Music in London, while his minor
beneiactions are as the sands Of the sea.
Mr.. CONWAY.
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 Ia
miliar figures. Mr.. Conway looks something
like Matthew Arnold, and reminds one OF
him, but his face is less rugged-has not the
deep lines of Matthew Arnold-though 1t Is
perhaps as expressive of the lines OF thought-
full work upon which both lives have been
spent Mr.. Conway is one OF those men VINO
make themselves felt wherever they are. A
Virginian by BIRTH he graduated from Dick
inson College, Pa, and took up the study OF
the law at time when the growth OF an OPP
position public opinion was stimulating
Southern pro-slavery prejudice to its extrem-
est point.
A man must be all that local sentiment de-
manded of him or nothing. Mr.. Conway
took up the cudgel for freedom and hui
manity; he threw up the Law and with it the
prospect of n brilliant 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 n Unitarian church IN Washing
ton. His anti-slavery sermons, however, led
to his dismissal and after another trial in
Cincinnati where trouble arose from the
! same cause, he took up the work OF PROBES
| siunal writer and lecturer. He edited the
boston 1OLlt1IlOpeuttf ana dChilObI-
| edged power. When he went 10 England in
! 1866 it was for the purpose of influencing
! public opinion there through the press and OF
confronting Southern arguments with the
| testimony of an anti-savery Southerner. But
| England has q fashion of its own Of absorb
| ing the really able men and women who
make their quality known.
| Mr.. Conway wrote and lectlIred and shortly
received a call which he accepted, to the min
isterial office in connection with the South
| Place Chapel and shortly became recog-
| nized part of the intellectual metropolis. But
! he has never lost his interest in or his con-
| nection with the living issues 'tat home"
! Mr.. Conway is man Of convictions and has
| the courage of them. He is still in the prime
| of life. though his mentality has got the bet
! ter OF his vital forces somewhat and caused
/ him to bend forward so as to give him look
! of greater age than really belongs to him.
| Already he is felt as new force in the field
of thought and mental and moral progress,
and has more demand upon his time than iSi
good for the important literary work in which,
he is engaged.
Leaving out all reference to the lecturers
which. first and last represent every phase Of
active intellectual life and thought, these ara
a few of the figures which would be pointed
out as notable at any meeting of the Nine
tenth Century Club, and these and the
methods employed will serve to indicate some
of the reasons why it is famous.
JENNY JUNE,