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WHAT A LIBRARY is.
George R. Peck Defines It as an
Epitome Of the World.
A Scholarly Plea for Literary Gull
ture-Dreams, Fancies and linz
aginatiOns Contribute Much
to Human Happiness.

Galesburg, Ill, dedicated its new
public library not long ago, and Mr..
George R. Peck, the well-known attor-
ney of Chicago, was the orator of the
day. His address, like all of his toe
casional'' efforts, was scholarly in
style, happy in illustration, and par
ticularly felicitous from literary
point of view. Mr.. Peck's close sym
pathy with books and his wide reading
eminently qualified him for task OF
this kind. His address was strong
tribute to the intellectual forces, and
an eloquent appeal for literary Gull
ture, as not only productive of mental
growth, but as destructive of what is
obnoxious to that growth. From his
point of view the library should be
organized, not alone for the dissemina-
ton of useful knowledge, but for the
encoura cement of dreams and fancies
and imaginations. He believes there
is more help to average minds in
"The Odyssey" "Don Quixote," 'Les
Miserables," or "The Newcomes" than
in all the scientific treaties, however
important they may be in their place.
While proud of the conquests of sci
ence in the present epoch, he yet has
the courage ''to long for the literature
that used to be-" and the faith to be-
lieve that it "can be brought back by
clinging to it," In these practical days
it is pleasant to read the thoughts OF
tho scholar and the dreamer and such
an eloquent plea for literary culture
as that made by Mr.. Peck at Gales
burg. He spoke in part as follows:
"a library is an epitome of the
world. Though it has no speaking
tongue, no lips to proclaim the wis
dom and the beauty enshrined in
its volumes, yet the searcher who
ever he may be, finds both wisdom
and beauty, and takes them into his
own life, undisturbed by the noise and
clamor of crowds. There is calm de-
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MAJ. OGDEN'S GRAVE.
It Marks the Geographical Center
of the United States.
Shaft Erected to the Memory Of .
Brave Army Officer Is Proof of the
Fact That Truth IL Stranger
Than Fiction.

The geographical center of the
in the public reservation at Fort Riley,
Kan. 1t is marked by a large monu-
1nent, erected in memory of an officer
in the regular army, Maj. Edmund
Ogden U. S. A., who died near this fort.
The monument was erected by Jo-
seph O. Sawyer, the father of DR.. f. ..
Sawyer, now Il resident of Pico Heights,
Los Angeles, who was named for the
major several years prior to his death.
Between Maj. Ogden and j. 0. Saw
yer there existed a warm friendship
which lasted through many years
Back in the sos Mr.. Sawyer, who was
a noted civil engineer, had contract
with the government to build wagon
road between Fort Riley and Santa Fe.
N. NJ. Maj. Ogden was in command OF
the government troops commissioned
to guard the road builders, for Indians
were plentiful and hostile to the whites
in those days, but Il far more to be
dreaded enemy was soon with them,
for the cholera broke out in their camp
and Maj. Ogden was one OF the hrst
to succrmb to the disease. After his
death the army surgeons became panic
stricken and ran away. All of the com
missioned officers and their wives died
and at one time the death rate reached
as high as 60 in one day. Mr.. Sawyer
took complete charge of the expedi-
ton, becoming doctor, nurse and COM
mander of the troops, some of which
had already mutinied. Very little was
known in those days about the treat
ment of the disease; about all they
could do was to deal out quinine; and
after long fight the scourge died out,
leaving but mere handful of men to
| return to the fort.
In the year 1856 Mr.. Sawyer deter
mined to mark his friends last rest
ing place and a shaft of Kansas gray
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and it is said that President Lincoln
once remarked that Mr.. Nast's pictures
were the best recruiting sergeants on
the side of the north. I
It was, however, during the recon-
struction period, after the close OF the
war. that Mr.. Mast did his most men,
orable and historic work. In the cam
paign against William NJ. Tweed and
the political rings which had control
of the various departments of the
New York city government, his humor-
our cartoons exposing these frauds
and corruptions so Influenced public
opinion that investigation was ordered
and the rings were broken up. Tweed
once remarked that he cared little for
the published stories of his shortcom-
ings, but he would admit that he was
much afraid of Tom Nast's graphic
oencil. Nast's colored caricatures OF
well-known men in the "Bal d'Opera"
show strikingly his ability to portray
the individuality of subject by Carl
caturing some characteristic pose or
popularity of apparel, never leaving
a doubt as to the i'd IDENTIFY of the OBJ
iect of his satire. His work in this
direction was one of the pioneer efforts
in the substitution of the topical car
toon for the "leader" of the old-fash-
toned newspaper. Comparatively few
would read and appreciate the former,
but the latter appealed to all classes.
Many symbols which are the common
stock of present-day cartoonists were
originated by Mast, notably the Amer
icus tiger for Tammany the republican
G. o. P. elephant, the democratic don
key, and the infa zionist rag baby. AS
a painter he has also attained sig
nal success, and for beauty of execu-
ton and conception he ranks high in
American art. His largest painting is
called the departure Of the Seventh
Regiment" and hangs in the regiment
al armory in New York.
Mr.. Mast has made several success
full lecture tours, and all OF his enter
tanning and witty talks were accom-
nanied with off-hand sketches and carl
catures in colored crayons. Some OF
his best efforts in the latter line were
published in weekly paper which he
started in '92, and called Nast's
Weekly.
It was Thomas Mast who first real
ized the power of pictorial art in jour
nalism, and his signal development of
its possibilities made him famous.
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(JU4t CENOSen fIcSlUSHl VI AAASSeV we - ASs-
versity.I
father, Joseph r. Wilson, was prom
inent divine of the Southern Presby-
terrain church, and was himself native
of Ohio. Woodrow Wilson studied in
the primary schools of Atlanta, Ca,
and was later student in Princeton,
from which he was graduated in 1879.
He next entered the law department
of the University of Virginia, and SUBJ
seouently began practice, but aban-
doned it to take up general study in
Johns Hopkins. There he began his
work in history and politics, and in 1885
took position as instructor in these
branches in Bryn Mawr. Johns Hop
kins gave him Phi. D. in 1886. In 1888
he became a member of the faculty
of Wesleyan university, of Middletown,
Conn.,, and IL years ago was called to
the chair of Jurisprudence at Prince
ton. DR.. Wilson has published "The
State Elements of Historical and Prac-
teal Politics. can Old Master and
Other Political Essays" "Mere Liter
ature," and George Washington, a
historical and biographical study OF
the first American president. The new
head of Princeton is fine scholar and
eminently qualified for the position hs
10 about to assume
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skeleton Last. Thirty Years.

The opening of a rev cemetery at
Exeter, n. H., and the transfer of a
large number of bodies have enabled
an observant sexton to collect some
prewsome facts in regard to the length
of time the human frame lasts when
put under ground. He has found that
a e5-year interment is sufficient
for .disintegration generally, and
after 40 years there is nothing left
of the bodies of adults except the skull
and right thigh bone. At what period
the entire skeleton disappears he has
not determined. In support of his as
sertion he instances numerous cases
which have come under his own obser-
yation recently.-N. Y. World.
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light in seeking the refreshment and
repose of clustered seclusion. At
such time he may forget how rapid the
tired earth is compelled to revolve on
its tired axis, to give us assurance of
a rising and setting sun. And yet,
while he thus rests, he grows; he in
hales diviner air, and becomes, by
the contact with other minds, and by
the habit of meditation thus formed,
more and more man thinking and
more and more man looking before
and after
'sSome one has said that all which
has actually happened in the world is
small and unimportant compared with
what has happened in the dreams and
fancies and imaginations of genius.
That is the secret Of Shakespeare's
unrivaled power in the intellectual
world. His creations are real. His
Lears, his Mercutios, his Falstaffs, his
Shylocks, would be ours if we pos
sessed his genius, and-let US be thank
ful-are ours even without it. A H.
brary which has Shakespeare in it
as every library worthy the name has
where we can feast upon the mex
haustible resources of him whom Cole
ridge called myriad minded'-is equal
to every demand of the intellect. To
know Shakespeare is culture, in that
fine sense which Steele had in mind
when he said of Lady Hastings, to
love her is a liberal education.'
"And this is why I plead that you do
not shut your hearts against the great
imaginative works that constitute the
worlds best literature. Let them
come in; and you may find, as when
strangers enter your doors, you have
thereby entertained angels unawares."
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Snakes Sent to Patti.

Patti had a terrible shock this week
at Paris. Some one sent her from
Mentone boz containing three snakes
each about a yard long. She thought
she was getting nice present, and
on opening the tox and seeing nothing
but dry grass, confidently ran her hand
to the bottom into cold, Shiny, wrig-
cling mass. She uttered cry and ran
into another room, and was hysterical
for two hours. The snakes escaped
and crawled about under the furniture
until finally they were killed. On ex
animation it was found that they were
not poisonous reptiles.
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THREE CENTURIES AGO.
That IL When the First EuropeaA
Colony Was Planted at Cos
nold's Landing, Mass.

A memorial shaft is being erected
on Gosnold's island. In Cuttyhunk
Pond, Mass, where Bartholomew Cos
mold and his companions in 1902 planted
the first European colony in America.
The corner stone was. laid on May "a.
the three hundredth anniversary OF
Gosnold's landing.
Gosnold first stepped ashore en- Cut
tyhunk island, but it was on small
islet (now known as Gosnold's island)
in a fresh water pond at the west end
of the island, where he built fort and
storehouse, and traded with the In
dams. This storehouse is supposed to
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DEATH BY GARRoTR.
Recently at Ponce, Island OF
Porto Rico.

Four men were garroted at Ponce,
Porto Rico, recently, for one of the
most atrocious crimes ever committed
in Porto Rico, the murder of Antonio
Delgado de Pine, at Guayo, near Ad-
juntas, and the robbery and i'll treat
ment of his family and servants, on
the night of September 30, 1898.
The scaffold was erected during the
night in the court yard Of the prison,
a few feet from the cells in which the
four men-Bernabe, Acevedo, Jose
Torres, Ramon Troche Cadeno and
Juan Torres-were confined.
Priests were with each of the con-
demned men until the end, leading
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DEATH BY GAROTTE.
CHow Criminals Are Executed in the Island
of Porto Ric0)

them to the scaffold. When the in
strument had been adjusted to their
necks, all of the prisoners, who had
previously denied their crimes, made
confessions.
Jose Torres, who had become IA
natical spiritualist, violently resisted
attempts to adjust the garrote, and in
sisted that he should die with his face
uncovered. 1t was Is minutes before
he was subdued.
They were all put to death within 50
minutes, and the average time taken
to kill each man was two minutes.
None, it is thought, suffered pain,
as death was practically instantaneous,
though violent twitchings of the limbs
continued for minute or two after
ward.
Evidence at the trial of the men
showed that band of about Is went
to the house of Delgado and called
upon him to open the door in the name
of the American police and municipal
Judge. When Delgado opened the door
the outlaws rushed into the house and
seized Delgado and about six others.
The men were tied to the stairs lead
ing to the roof. The women were lock ed
up in room, while two of the bandits
took Delgado into shed adjoining the
house, and, after tying him hand and
foot, hung him up by the feet.
They then beat him and cut of his
ears, afterward putting rope around
his neck and hanging him to one OF the
beams. He died in the morning OF o.
tober I, of strangulation.
In the meantime the other bandits
were ransae4ing -ttAhe'--lfouse. After
several attacks upon the women, the
bard departed with their stolen goods.
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(Spot Where 1t was Located to Be Marked
by Memorial Shaft)
have been the first habitation built on
this coast by Europeans.
Gosnold was accompanied by 80 men,
eight of whom were mariners. Among
the others a clergyman, Gabriel
Archer, journalist, and James Roster,
who wrote an account of the voyage
and presented it to Sir Walter Raleigh.
Gosnold discovered the islands known
as the Elizabeth islands and named
them in honor of the queen of England.
Plans for the memorial are in charge
of a committee headed by ex-Congress'
man Randall, of Massachusetts,. 1t Is
to be plain shaft, 60 feet high, so high
above the surrounding objects at the
wedge-like point of land between Buzz
yards bay and Vineyard sound as to be
an inevita BILE landmark for every YES
sci passing through those waterways
The shaft will cost approximately
S., 900.
The first section Of the shaft will
have diameter of IS feet, tapering to
- feet. The interior chamber will be
nine feet in diameter at the base.
While the tower is actually hollow, 1t
is practically solid and impervious
from the outside.
At the height of 1914 feet from the
base will be false windows on all four
sides. The wall rises 16 feet 2 inches
farther before the second windows are
reached. The main arches of the base
are to be ten feet high and five feet
wide. These will be recessed about
six or eight inches and backed by fiat.
faced rough stone. Inside one of them
will be the corner stone, containing
lead plates telling the story of Cos
mold and the erection of the memorial
shaft. The whole aim has been to raise
a monument which shall be as nearly
imperishable as possible.
After its completion and dedication
the memorial will be turned over to
the achusetts Historical society.
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CARROLL D. WRIGHT.
United States Comm issiOner of Labor
Who IL Settling the Anthracite
Coal Strike.

Carroll D. Wright, commissioner Of
labor, who has been summoned by
President Roosevelt for consultation
in connection with the anthracite coal
strike, is one of the foremost statis'
ticians of the world. Few men have
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Caae for Hague Court.

The international court OF arbitra
4,on has been notified of the conclu'
sion of an agreement between the
United States and Mexico to submit to
the court the dispute regarding the
payment of damages in connection
with certain church property in Cal
ifornia. If this convent1on.is ratified
q will he the firyt case to come before
the court.
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Harrison's Burial Place.

The United States government is
negotiating for the land where the first
president Harrison is buried, on the
north bank of the Ohio river, few
miles below Cincinnati. 1t is COM
manding site, viewed from passing
steamer, but much neglected.
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DIR. WOODROW WILSON.
well-KnoWn Jurlst and Historlan
Who Has just Been Chosen Pres-
ident of Princeton.

DR.. Woodrow Wilson, who has just
been chosen president Of Princeton
university, in the place of DR.. Francis
L. Patton, is well-known jurist, his
torian and man of letters, and at pres
ent professor of jurisprudence and
politics in Princeton. He was born at
Staunton, Va, December %, 1856. His
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reliable Key to stature.

The Paris Academic des Sciences is
examining remarkable theory to the
effect that the key to human nature
lies in the gland situated in the throat
under the larynx. BY artificially slim
ulating this gland it is claimed that
anv child can be made to grow to max
imum height.
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n. wanted Particulars.

4 Rockland (Mass.) teacher de-
scribed the landing Of the Pilgrims, and
asked the pupils to draw from imagin-
alton a picture of the Plymouth rock.
One little fellow Immediately inquired:
ssHen or rooster?"
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.Argentina Wants Beers.

Advices received al Cape Town from
Buenos Ayres say the Argentine gov
eminent has appointed special
agent to visit the camps in South Africa
and offer free transportation to Beers
DESTROYS Of emigrating to Argentina.
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been as careful as he to present bare
facts, and to present them as fully al
the statistician can. It was he who
ORIGINATED the famous and much mis-
quoted saying: Figures do not lie
but liars figure" He began life as q
country schoolmaster in New Hamp'
shire and went from pedagogy into
law. In1SS5 he was made the first labor
commissioner of the United States.
His published works make very con-
siderable library.
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The Library of Congress.

The library of congress has reached
the rank of sixth in size. France owns
the largest, with England, Russia and
Germany following in order.
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Rcxxar with n Fortune.

A beggar Of so years, known as Pere
Giroflee, died in Paris recently. After
his death $4,000 was found in an old
pocketbook sewn in the lining of his
coat.
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WASH. Hostile to Flies.

The wasp and the fly are irrecon-
cilable enemies. The presence OF
wasp's nest is a guarantee to the whole
neighborhood of the absence OF Ties.
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TIE. StrQnxer Than Lion.

The tigers strength exceeds that OF
the lion. Five men can easily hold
down lion; bat nine are required to
hold . tiger.
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Religion for Everybody.
There are 227 different religious scots
In Grerat Britain and Ireland.
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Not n Companion Long.

Make companion of vice and you
vii: soon become its slave.-Chicago
Daily News.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-09

to &c higher for the December and May The
slight rally in the deferred months the close
wss on covering by early scaIping sellers Re-
CENTS were 125 cars the estimate for Tuesday was
2oa cars Everybody is nervous the weather
Light frosts are predicted for Minnesota and Da
l,ota No fears entertained for the corn States
Gables were sd to Id lower. Shipping sales were
$50 900 bushels the business helped by the severe
break.
Cash oats were &c lower; the shipping demand
however was slow. Receipts were 400 cars: the
estimate for Tuesday $50 cars. The grading is
improving slghty-25 standard TO-DAY
Futures early were 2sc to sc lower. The Patten
marty. however. covered HberaIly-sales at higher
priees made last week. September oats closed at
3.c or &c higher than Saturday: December, 307sc
sellers &c under Saturday and the May Bic, or
&c under Saturday. The cash situation is weak
and some lower prices are expected
Flaxseed prices were &c TO Sc lower. on the dis
appearance of the frost scare and the denial of
cold weather damage AT the three points there
TENDER closing at 81 s.; October, 81 81.
Outsiders who bought January provisions Sat
urday we're sellers to-day, and the January and
Ma prices we're easy. September and October
prices were little changed There Were large hog
receipts-TG90 the estimate; prices a the
yards sc lower. Exports for the week were under
last vear'S on every thing. Hogs West were 40 000
against $1,000 last year. Packers continue buish
on tile nearby product. and support it.
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TRADE IN CHICAGO

Icy TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE
NaacsSo. Sept. s-Wheat weak early on lower
eeoes. large worlds shipments, nne weather
aoroad. Improved weather IN the Northwest ana
sx Of pronounced increase in receipts In the
-s''ui~ess tomorrow. Early wheat showed loss
tom Saturday Of 5ze &c. The close was sc 10
* oace- Saturday, and September OF the hoSt'
Deeenoer opened at Sc sold between eec ana oI9sc
SIC Closed al s72.c. September closed at ilhsc May
~ VIZ II was estimated that Duluth wouid nave
20 cars OF wheat tomorrow. Worries shipments
~efe usZls.0sB bushels There was an increase on
A"esge Of 3,Se4 go bushels. The partial recovery
ss on The hrnness Of cash wheat al minneapolis
aSctaonal advance there on buying py MIXERS
enough the futures lower. Ne~-fofh fe-
'ie1 d loads for export That was help GEAR
sa &c Were z2so 600 bushels. Primary receipts were
''s Bushels under last year; the Northwestern
- We're only half last years New-fork was
Aer OF wheat futures here early. CIoahy houses
se buyers toward the close. The feeling here is
aat the December price is nct high, and bears are
aao about keeping short
ne incident in corn the pronounced m
Ease In the country oferings-at least 5Uv@
.afis bought in Illinois and Iowa on bids sent
- saturday. Cash here was 21zc lower, and
y September at one time was z7ze lower.
s'afss closed ls&c lower for September. but 10
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-09

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