The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-06-07
A NOBLE MEMORIAL
A NOBLE MEMORIAL
Dedication Exercises of the Anderson
Memorial Library.
Over Three Thousand Volumes Al
raady on the Shelves.
A Banquet Spread for Nearly 800
People.
The Home Lite OF Col. Anderson by
G. w. Martin.

a large ana enthusiastic audience
filed the college chapel to OVERLOOKING
yesterday afternoon. The occasion
was the dedication of the Anderson
Memorial Library, magnificent mem
orial of noble man. This enterprise
has far outgrown the hopes of even its
most sanguine projectors. Over three
thousand volumes are on the shelves
already and many more are promised.
And this is only the beginning. Good
assurance is given that the work thus
begun will not be allowed to lag, but
that the memorial will keep pace with
the years in its growth.
Rev. DR.. Hendy, president of the col
lege, announced the first number on
the programme at 4:30. This was En-
erson's ''Star of Descending Night, -
which was rendered in admirable style
by a quartette composed of Mrs. Har-
ris. Miss Overstreet, Professor Tart
man and Mr.. Porter.
| After the invocation. pronounced by
Rev. DR.. Bishop, of Salina, the audi
ence, led by the quartette, united in
singing Dykes grand hymn, ''Holy,
Holy, Holy.''
| Rev. d. G. Miner, of Manhattan,
followed with an address which was
full of the spirit of the occasion. He
told of a recent occurrence in which
certain college boys undertook to cele-
citrate u prematurely the death of
Que Ofthe authorities by taking holi-
day, and said in like spirit we had
gathered to-day to do honor to a dis
tinguished man before his death. He
then detailed the manner in which
Colonel Anderson and wife, after re-
fusing peremptOrilY the usual celebra-
ton of their golden wedding, caught
up at once the idea of such a celebra-
ton as this. Mr.. Milaer closed with
an eloquent tribute to the worth and
generosity of the founder.
The duet, ''SailOr Sighs,' by Miss
Overstreet and Professor hartman,
was rendered as only singers of such
natural powers and such thorough
training and perfect taste could render
it. This was followed by an address
on Books, !" by Noble Prentis, Esq,
of Newton.
ADDRESS OF NOBLE PRENTIs.
Like many another who has Offered
his services find that l have, after
all, no particular service to give. Anx-
iOuS to do something to show my in
, terest in what is to me most inter
esting occasion, readily promised, and
thought there would be when the
time came, no lack of ideas and words
. Though these are not always aSSociat-
4 ofll k1rntt h0 inn has nd
that the cares and labors and thoughts
. of an existence of drudgery have near
ly driven all thought 1 should say out
of my mind.
We are here to establish a memorial
| to dear and valued friends, and fol
myself, may say that the memorial
: could have taken no shape more pleas.
ing than that of collection of books
small or great. Perhaps from an in.
, ability to grasp great things, the vast
, memorials which men have erected fol
themselves or which their heirs OF
their friends and admirers, or even
their country have erected for them
have failed to impress my mind or
heart. For myself my imagination
has been the rather warmed and in
spired by humber memorials designed
to keep alive in love and honor
a name, and to diminish IL
, some degree, though but for a moment
, an hour, the sum of human suffering
the weight of human need. While
nearly every line of ''Marmion,'' reaC
when boy, has faded from my mind
remember the inscription above thu
wayside spring where they laid the dy
| ing chieftain down:
Drink, weary pilgrim, drink and pray
For With the b KIM t sSgL Of sy6 nd Grey Sy
To me Sybil Grey, whose memory il
r the poem Is kept alive by the Iittl,
: pool, the trickling stream, flowing fol
/ dying knight of high degree, or footsor,
wayside beggar, comfort for tt,
, time, has been all these years as real ;
. person as John Howard. Very dear
turtles ago, left not churches, converts
public edifices, lofty halls or cloisteres
colleges to preserve the recollection o
! their names OF riches, but the rattle
! certain requests providing that on Ger
I tain days in the year SO many poo
: people, whether worthy or unwoFth.
the will did not specify, who shoulI
a apply at certain place, should receiv
so many loaves of bread, SO that the,
might eat and be flied and go thei
possibly idle and worthless and incon
sequential way to the end of the world
On the idea of one of these be
Iquests, Dickens wrote his charm
!, ing stories of 1.-The SeVel
v Poor Travellers who, driven abou
: by the storms of fortune, found 70
one night snug harbor, an inn wher
after supper provided as it were by
vanished hand they sat by a fire kindle,
}. by q long gone GeStator, and relates
f their adventures. This seems to me
at least, real and unworIdly charity
done in Gods name, without hope o
Il praise, and falling like his rain in tn
"a nniof Tinhf YanfhfnIrSnn- Of thu iFaf N
the unjust.
Next to memorial taking the forT
of an alienation Of physical huma
suffering. sheltering the houseless G
Z feeding the hungry. there can be n
= finer or better way of keeping green
2 life and afterWard the name and men
ory Of the good, than by collecting for a
= true and future generations good books
that he who comes may read, and i
this case it is most appropriate, q
this library is TO bear the name Of
family that has known in all its II
+ corded generations. the use and vain
m and solace of reading. One Of tt
: most widely read Of Kansas scholar
and gentleman, once gave me a yeilo
OF and time-stained pamphlet, it was I'll
printed funeral sermon of his gre:
GRANDMOTHER. and in it the clergyms
said of this elect lady of a day whe
books were scarce, and women we
III not taught as they are now, that 81
re never went visiting without takiI
with her q book, that she mig
read in her leisure moments to herSe
or her entertainers. And a family wi
". has produced four generations in So
:. cession of Presbyterian eleTgymen, mi
1S of education, of books, could not
better commemorated. Doubtless Il
re- brave North Carolina wing gran
Is. mother of our friend here, who hid b
ON little store Of corn meal beneath b
ng hearthstOne to keep it from TarletoY
of British troopers, read the Mecklenbu
IN declaration when it was published, a.
Ice would highly approve this idea of Ou
of library bearing the name of b
: husband and of her sOBs, aud the me
ton of families reminds me that
this and every American library thu
should he collected books On leneaIo,