Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-29

inventor, q fireworks emporium, q car
pentcr shop, n mining gulch camp, the
sanctum Of On Answers For the Anx-
ious" editor, wedding reception and
restaurant. In the middle of this perfect
melangc of materials of all shapes, sizes
and conditions has stood an earnest little
man who for hours at a time has drawn
lessons from the objects about him and
held the answering attention of q room
| constantly SO full of people that they had
neither space nor desire to do anything but
| sit still and listen.
II is hard to tell what the shade of JON
athan Edwards would have thought of
modern methods of evangelical work if It
| could have strutted for q brief space
| through that schoolroom one night when
the place where the pulpit ought to be
looked like the grass plot of patriotic
| citizen on the night Of the Fourth Of July.
If the returned spirit of stern old JON
athan were dog fancier, it probably
would have fingered long had it happened
| to strike the Wicker Park Sunday school
| room one morning. The only dog that
was present in the flesh, to be sure, was q
prairie dog from Lincoln park, but it was
surrounded by lifesize colored pictures of
all the canine breeds known. Those dogs
were so natural that they did everything
but bark. There were bulldogs there as
| ugly, rs vicious and as bloodthirsty look
ing as any of their kind that had ever en-
tered the prize pit. There was everything
| from "a bloodhound to n beagle. They were
there to lend their aid in adjoining q tale
| and pointing more morals than they had
| ever dreamed could be drawn from such
| lives as theirs.
There arc oil kinds of dogs" said Mr..
L in sr,cf
like people. Dogs have many good traits,
but they also have many bad ones, which
are shown especially in their treatment Of
/ one another
Then he told about the bad traits of
dogs, how they had counterparts in people,
and before he got through entirely with
the dog question he gave each boy present
a bottle filed with "antidoggish" pills.
| These pills were of all colors, and there
were directions in rhyme for the taking Of
each kind. There was q white pill to be
taken when n youn9ster felt like snarling
at his brother, red one to be taken when
the fighting spirit came on, n black one
which should be swallowed when the boy
ielt as unwilling to share with another
some good thing received as q dog growl-
inS over a bone does to surrender it to
some starving companion.
| >.sS "l!eu tIe CuNUly ScnOOl
room was packed so full Of people that
they encroached to the edge Of the plat
form, MIR Cook appeared standing by q
trunk on which any railroad in the coun
Try would have charged extra rates. 1t
was as big us small house. Over beyond
stood something which looked like an
easel On this appeared, after the touch.
ing OF some. mysterious spring o. other,
the Legend, 1T is nice to be handsomelv
dressed. Then in rapid succession on
different parts Of the easel appeared: "It
! lie nice TO ee petted, 1T is nice to have
, no care for Others, 1T is nice to do moth
! ing" and then came the query, lis it nice
10 be laid away in the attic:"
Then Mr.. Cook opened the big trunt
. and began the task of unpacling. II,
. took out in rarta succession q collection o
! dolls from all parts Of the world and doll
! of all accomplishments. The big table o,
! the platform was full in few minutes
and the platform itself was turned into
promenade, a race track and concert hall
Dolls with parasols over their heads wer
walking about for the sake of exercise
while others were spinning along on bi
| cycles and just keeping within the IN
scorching allowed" limit.
At little distance there was o dol
orchestra, the members playing violin
cornet and cymbals. 1t was not alone th
children in the congregation who were as
tonished at this display. There was NOR
shown there than even the older cnes ha
= known Of in the doll world. Somehow G
other out Of this showing Of inagniflcenc
in apparel and variety of accomplishment
the evangelist drew some truths whic
went home. In 10 minutes the childre
were looking a little askance at the doll.
and any light Of envy that might hay
been in their eyes had well nigh fade
away. Some broken dolls were shown
and there were some whose dresses wcr
soiled and torn. These were the doll
, which were ready to be laid away in I'll
, attic. Then the congregation was told tha
. that was the fate Of those who led a doll
life.
, Another afternoon the SUNDAY scho,
: room was full Of flying machines of a
. makes. the models shown being tho.
which were the offspriugs Of the ideas ,
. crackbrained enthusiasts and those of me
: OF better balanced brains who had som,
4 thing Of merit to show for their pains.
III The evangelist drew lesson or tw