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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-24

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-24

st. Mary's church was the scene of
Il pretty wedding yesterday morning
when Rev. j. p. Ryan united in mar
riage Miss Sarah Veronica O'Laugh-
lin and Dennis Joseph McGraw.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-24

Two cases of typhoid fever were re-
ported to the city clerk yesterday.
and one of them is charged to pool
of stagnant water at the city dump.
The two patients are Dora Wolf. at
st. Luke's hospital. and William
Speth. 1417 West Fourth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-24

Henry Petersen. who is employed
at the Golden EagaI grocery ON Brady
street. is on an enforced vacation.
Last Thursday he had his right hand
while opening Il box, and
this week blood poisoning set in. DIR.
Ioepfner is attending him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-24

His system of removing the cause of your
an entirely new one.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-24

gives written guarantee that Satisfac
Its will come or your money will be ref
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-24

An trains daily except sunday
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-24

Means bad air, and whether it
nes from the low lands and
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and help the needy millions of the

and help the needy millions of the
world.
Nor is Mr.. Carnegie alone among
the builders of great fortunes who
have put their accommodations at the
service of their fellow men. The roll
is a long and honorable one, which
contains the names of those who have
felt this pressure of their duty to man
kind 1t is they who have saved the
law of property from reproach, and
lifted the industry and the commerce
of men above the sordid levels of ava.
rice and greed.
There Is much in the way men
make money and more in the way they
use it to encourage the reckless agita.
ton inspired by hatred of the rich,
which has for it's object the subver-
sion of the whole order of society.
That is not disease peculiar to our
own times. 1t is some comfort to
those of us who are disquieted by the
unequal distribution of this worlds
goods to know that all of the con-
plants current in our times are as old
as the race, and appear to be insepara-
BILE from the structure of society itself
The arrogance of wealth and the op.
preston of the poor gave theme to
the faithful prophets of Israel. and are
treated with fine ethical expression in
the parallels of the Gospel. They have
formed subject for the pious exhor
tation of the clergy in all ages.
II found in the poet Southey's Mis-
cellanies, fragment from a sermon
on the Fall of Man. preached by Bish
OPP Godfrey Goodman, chaplain OF
Queen Ann of Denmark. which shows
how well the problems that trouble lis
today carry their years, and seem as
fresh and interesting at the beginning
of our century as they were at the be
ginning of Shakespeare's. He portrays
the Independent state of the farmer
in former times. who with "a few
beasts of his own and means to pay
his rent duly and quarterly, was
counted a very rich and sufficient
man. But he adds, it would seen
that since the dissolutions of the Abb
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his impression of real money getting
age; to enlarge his catalogue of the
handicraftsmen who join their wits
and their labor together and profess
ing the one, thrive by the other, and
to observe how skillfully an up-to-date
alderman. very far from breaking his
back with honor, unsupported by
wealth, manages to avoid the perils
incident to he acquisition of wealth
with honor.
yet cannot think the bishop would
have to alter his sermon very much.
except to fit the larger circulations of
more spacious times, and am sure he
would not have to alter his philoso--
ply at all, but would be able even in
the midst of the vulgar destinations
of modern life to thank God for the
blessings that have come to ALL and
without comparing himself with 9TH
ers deem himself sufficiently rich
"The business career of Andrew
Carnegie would have made him no.
table figure in the world even if he
had saved all the money he ever made
and kept it entirely to himself. He
began life {, poor boy in land Of
strangers. He rose through his owr
efforts from one degree of worldly sue
cess to another, until today he ranks
among the great organizers of the in
dustrial forces of these latter days
But it is not the achievements of his
business career. nor the fabulous ac-
cumulation of his riches which have
made his name familiar in all lands
He has won the heart of the whole
world by his resolute purpose to pu
himself. with all that he has and al
that he is, at the service of civiliza-
ton. He has put new valuation up
on the assets of commerce and indus
try and found them worthless unles.
they are used to promote the welfare
| of the children of men.
at is probable that few of us woult
begrudge him his millions even if h
used them to minister to himsel
alone. but no man can fail to perceiv,
that this man, now engaged in admin
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market, since nobody will buy thing
which he can get for nothing, there
might be grave apprehension as to
the wisdom of increasing the facilities
for the gratuitous distribution of lit
erature. But all these critics, bent up
on looking Mr. Carnegie's gift horse
erty of books 1t is not he function of
the library to satisfy the hunger of
the mind; on the contrary it only in
creases it. 1t is the man who reads
books who buys them, and no man
whose interest in literature has been
aroused in a public library ever loses
| the passion to have his books always
in sight on the walls of his own
dwelling.
Everything, therefore, which gives
| to men the taste for books, which
brings them into contact with the hid
den treasures of learning, very far
from damaging the book market, en-
| larges and broadens it and guarantees
its future. Every book increases the
demand for books and every institu-
ton like this becomes center of lit
i erary enthusiasm and expansion.
/ Again it has been said that since of
the making of books there is no end,
these recent additions to the opportun-
tiles for reading are likely to damage
the youth by filling their eyes with the
chaff of literature which the wind
driveth away. This is an old complaint
against the patrons of Libraries and
book stores alike. We find Mr.. Lowell
expressing his disgust and uttering his
!. warnings as to the kind of reading
which was popular half century ago.
And that there is an element of truth
in it is SO obvious that duty is laid
upon the managers of public Libraries,
growing ever more important, to pro-
tect them against the intrusion OF
worthless books which have dragged
the fine art of fiction in the direction
of the bottomless pit.
II once heard F. Marion Crawford
say, | thought at the time with tone
of depreciation, that he had always
been handicapped in his work as a
writer of novels, by the character of
his constituency, that is to say by the
atmosphere which makes the homes
of England and America what they
are. He said, / thought with some
bitterness, that the American young
girl had kept him from the free range
of subjects which have added the spice
of celebrity to the romantic literature
of other languages. If the young peo-
pie of the United States have no 9TH
er crown, it is glory enough, that they
have made it necessary for those who
write their books to be respectable in
order to be popular
There is no crime against human
society more odious than the offense of
the writer great or small who on any
+ pretense employs the talents which
God has given him to poison the foun-
tains of public morality and to make
the yoke of conscience and decent liv.
ing burdensome and unattractive.
If this library, which we dedicate
today shall guard with watchful vigi-
lence the interests of the boys and
girls whose lives are to be moulded
in measure at least, by its influence
it will always remain a school of high
thinking and right living and long at
ter the man whose gifts you have ac
cepted has gone to his reward, your
} children's children will be taught to sa
lutte with loving reverence the name o,
Andrew Carnegie
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ARE UNITED.
Iowa Republicans Stand With the
Drne;dapf

Iowa Republicans Stand With the
President.
Washington. Sept. 23.-"I do not be-
lieye that there is republican in Iowa
who can not stand fairly and squarely
on the speech of the President at Gin
cinnati, said James Wilson, secretary
of agriculture last night. ''The Presi-
dent takes no extreme grounds. He
abandons no past position. He de-
clares with the Iowa republicans, that
the trusts shalt be curbed in the
speediest and most effective manner
possible. He urges reciprocity, and
4 declares that he is not opposed to re-
vision of tariff schedules that may af--
/ ford a shelter to the trusts. He de-
nlands that no revision of this kind
shall be connected with antitrust leg
! islation, and that no tariff changes
shall be made until full inyestiga--
ton has resulted in the showing that
they are excessive, aud not for the
lbest interests of the people.
In word, the Presidents policy
on the tariff. trusts and reciprocity Is
SO thoroughly republican and so thor
!, cughly American that it must com
! mand the support OF republicans AMI
Il thinking people everywhere. He vii
J find predict. that the people of lowe
are with him almost to a man. ant
4 that the position of the Iowa republi
!, cans was exaggerated and misrepre
I scented. His address at Cincinnati, ev
en- if he had made no other, would, II
my Judgment, fully satisfy the people
of Iowa and of the west as to the cor
. rectness of the attitude of the Presi
dent and the party leaders on thu
!, trusts, reciprocity and tariff issues"
Mr.. Wilson left Washington las
) night to join the Presidents party il
! Chicago. Both he and Leslie MShaw
, secretary of The treasury, will accom-
, pany the President on the tour through
, Wisconsin. Minnesota, North ans
!, South Dakota. Iowa and Nebraska
: Neither of the secretaries will TAX
, part in the speechmaking during tn
). tour, leaving that entirely to the Pres
, Eident
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istering his vast estate with view to-
make it helpful to his fellow men has
at once added a new sanction to the
universal code of property rights and
made himself a unique influence in the
social program of the age.
at is said that his theory of giving
everything away is all right, but that
he might have found necessities more
urgent and opportunities more attrac-
tive than those to which he had so
far directed his attention; that there
are hospitals to be built, colleges to be
endowed. organisms to be enlightened
and that therefore Mr.. Carnegie has
Numbered in selecting the field for his
philanthropy. / cannot sympathize
with these complaints. To my mind
there is certain pathetic fitness in
| this old Scotchman, remembering the
help which came to him from the
| books loaned him by friend when he
was a homeless boy on the streets of
Pittsburg, resolving within himself in
! the days of his prosperi--
ty and affluence to render a
service to others on scale grander
| than ever before entered into the
heart of man.
.In all ages books, whether scrawl-,
| ed on the bark Of trees or burned into
strange shapes of brick, or traced on
/ the skins of animals, have been the
most precious Of earthly possessions
1t is truer today than when Thomas
! Carlyle first uttered it that your true
4 university is a collection of books.
The art of printing has been the hand
! maid of education and the recent in
! ventions in the setting of type, and the
\ manufacture of paper, have multiplied
thousand fold the discovery which
stands at the threshold of modern
life.
at Is doubtful whether a poor DO,
today with real desire to read goot
) books would have to wait upon the
i kindness of others as Lincoln did wher
j he borrowed Weem's Life Of Washing
J, ton, or as Andrew Carnegie did whel
! he carried home priceless volumes
, from the houses of benevolent citi.
+ zen.
To-day all the books in the Englsl
> language, in any sense necessary to
r good education can be bought as fas
4 as anyone can read them, even by
3 those in the lowliest circumstances
j If it We're true as Mr.. w. d. Howell
q not long ago intimated, that these fire,
!, iihrar;Aa a.'A Italv to kill Tho haol
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Ottutnwa, Iowa.
ACCUSES HIS WIFE.
Rev. p. J. Henness Makes Statement
of Trouble.

OF Trouble.
Keokuk, Sept. pa sensation was
created here this morning by the publ
cation in local newspaper of an open
letter by Rev. P. j. Henness, the min
lister who dramatically withdrew from
the Iowa conference because he alleg-
ed he could not get justice before that
body when it came to pass upon the
trouble existing between Rev. Henness
and his wife. Rev. Henness charges
his wife with striking him with her
fist and with threatening him with
butcher knife. He publishes the letter
because he says he has been misrepre-
sented.
Began Shortly After Marriage.
| Rev Henness reviews his statem--
ents made on the floor of the confer
ence just closed in this city. He says
in part:
Il stated that the infelicity in my
home and almost unbearable conduct
4 of my wife began within three weeks
after marriage and had continued all
through the years-that her criticisms
were harsh and vindictive--that she
had failed to manifest any love and
| tenderness for which my soul had
starved and longed that my ap--
proaches with tokens of love and felic-
4 ftous kindness had been repulsed and
coldly discarded; that | had gone to
1 her scores of times and plead with
tears and prayers that she would de-
sist from such conduct; that she was
crushing my life and rendering me un-
fit to perform the labor demanded by
1 the church; that her conduct was
wholly incapacitating him to meet and
perform the duties of a pastor; and
that my physical and mental abilities
were giving way under the constant
weight.
Wrote Resignation Before.
81 further testified that she was full
! ly aware of this fact, having been re-
peatedly told by myself that she would
drive me from my work and home and
that l could not much longer bear up
under the burden. That at one time
some years ago | had been driven to
the expedient of writing letter of
!. resignation to my presiding elder, but
that she had promised to do better;
I that she had struck mewith her fist
in fits of anger, and on one occasion
had raised a butcher knife in a threat
ening manner; that had borne these
continued insults and abuse quietly
rather than have family scandal and
:, thus bring reproach upon the church
loved, and for that reason it had APP
peared to those who were ignorant of
i, the true condition as something en-
tirely new and strange: that | had
gone to my parishioners and apollo
gized for her abuse of them.
Farewell until we stand at the
great white throne of God where the
, gathered worlds will be able to read
in clearer light the correct record
Of crushed and ruined lives.
g. j. Henness.'
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beys, all wealth has flown to the
towns. The husbandman sits at rack
rent. He fights with distracted fore
es, and knows not how to raise the
price of the market. Only the trades
man hath his corporation. He can
join his wits and his labors together,
and protesting the one. he thrives by
the other, and therefore they are not
unfitly called handicrafts.'
The bishop here evidently playful
ly alludes to the curious satire of our
old English speech which described
organizations of merchants, trades
men and artisans by the name of that
crooked wisdom called craft He
goes on to say that in the next mar
men indeed, for / hear it reported
(but | dare not speak of it for a
TRUTH that there are certain tanners,
gamblers and other tradesmen, some
worth SO pounds, some go and some
100 a piece. This is wonderfully; for
we cannot possibly conceive how mel
by honest and direct means should at
| tain such sums. Indeed the poor pee.
pie say, that one got his wealth by the
| black art; and another found pot OF
money in garden which did some
time belong to priory; and third
grew rich by burying many wives. Fol
| here are all the possible means that
we can Imagine for enriching our
! selves
We already begin to suspect that
the bishop is a philosopher, or al
least humorist, for he at once hurries
us to London, saying: There is the
mart; there is the mint; all waters
flow from the sea; there dwell oul
landlords; the country sends up their
provisions; the country must send III
their rent to buy provisions.
i In London he finds even more re
! markable profigacy of wealth-n'
i man esteemed unless he hath borne
I office in his company and has credi
!. good to take mp 500 pounds upon hi
own bond tt an alderman he says
J be worth but $1,000 pounds we pit.
him for very poor man and begin t
suspect his estate and fear his homo
may break his back.
: 'One cannot help wishing that tn
: old bishop having meditated unde
: more favorable circumstances for
: space of three hundred years on tn
J, Fall of Man, might have a call t
/ preach in our day ON the state of tn
! things visible N this world, to 9ir
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"Tn most all our important cities
suitable buildings have been provided
and already some of them have been
enriched by the liberality of enterpris-
ing citizens. At Webster City Mr.. Ken
dali Young made the library the lega--
tee of his entire estate. setting an ex--
ample which will doubtless be follow
Ell by scores of successful business
men in all parts of the commonwealth.
We nave so far been handicapped by
the more pressing problems which be-
set the growth of young and thriving
community. The founding of cities,
with all the modern improvements,
has absorbed our municipal revenues,
while our men of wealth have been SO
completely engrossed in making mon
ey that they have hardly yet had time
to mediate upon the higher and better
ways of spending it. So that Mr.. Car
negie has not come with his benefac-
| tons to people either Indifferent to
the value of library or likely to be
permanently deprived through their
own poverty of the prospect of secur--
| ing one. He comes to people already
started in the right direction and says
to them, i will help you, il, as an ear
nestsof your purpose, you VIII guaran-
! tee that the enterprise shall be per-
| manently supported as a part of your
1 system Of local government
What he has done for you, he has
done for more than score Of cities in
Iowa, and for hundreds in the United
States and throughout the English
speaking world. He has become the
foremost man Of his time both as a
money maker and money spender
| He is not the author of the doctrine
that the possessor of money is in real
ity a trustee resting under a solemn
obligation to give an account OF his
stewardship. That doctrine came
from the ministry of the Divine Teach
er, who quieted the worldly ambitions
4 of his disciples by revealing to then
the truth which shall one day bring
order out of the chaos of human soci-
ETY., whatsoever of you will be the
\ chiefest shall be the servant of all.
4 Neither is Mr.. Carnegie the only MAJ
4 who has comprehended the doctrine
and made it a working principle; foj
L there have been humble men and wo
! men whose names are not even re
Il membered, who have devoted thei
property and have poured out tn,
riches of lives which they counted no
-.Idear unto them, that they might bles
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OTTUMW ANS HEAR I0WA'S
ABLE JUNIOR SENATOR

pense. But in very many cases the Ii.
brary was presented to the town as a
free gift by somebody interested in it's
welfare; often the leading citizen
mentioned it within his will; and
sometimes wandering son, far from
the old homestead, grown prosperous
in distant parts of the country, would
come back to the scenes of his boy
hood and in loving recollection of 9th.
er days, present the village with
enough money to erect and maintain a
memorial library.
so that there is in these six states,
hardly hamlet or wayside village
IN which the traveller does not have
his attention called to this indispensa-
BILE accompaniment of New England
life, for the library has become part
OF the scheme of public education, be.
ginning with the common schools and
rising at last to the ancient universe.
ties which have done so much to add
prestige and influence to the intellec-
tual leadership of New England.
Our own state, more directly per-
maps than any other western comnlun.
lty, has entered into the New England
spirit, and has received its best ideals
as part of orr Inheritance. With
us the public library has been devel.
oped in natural way from the first
settlement of the state. In nearly ev.
cry Important city and town, founda.
ton was laid long ago upon which the
! Tree public library, was to be, erected
4 When the state capitol was designed
generous space was set apart in II
Ior DOCKS and later on the legislature
authorized local levy of taxes for
tne maintenance of libraries WHEREBY
er the people desired to have them.
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Addresses large Crowd.
MUST KEEP FAITH.
President Says Cuban Reciprocity
Must Come in Spite of All

Detroit, Mich. Sept. 23.--Here in
the heart of the enemies country
President Roosevelt threw down the
gauntlet on the question of Cuban re-
ciprocity. He declared that good faith
must be kept with Cuba, and that, no
matter how strongly some people
might feel on the subject, the national
honor must be kept inviolate,