Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-11-15


What became Of that paramount Is.
Sue In the last election? Judging by
results and the doings In the City Coun.
ell. the tissue" doesn't seem TO have
been touched. not to speak of being
settled by either the campaign or the
election.
Hon. Ernest Hummel Ia strongly urg-
al for the treasurership of the Demo-
cratic County Central Committee. No
better man could be selected Tor the
place.
Local Republican managers are al.
ready beginning their preparations for
the coming mayoralty election. Hon.
Theodore Brentano is thus far and
away In the lead Of all others mention.
cd rs possible nominees of that party.
He possesses all the qualities Of a win.
ming candidate. and would give the
best man the Democrats could name u
battle royal. AZ for Harrison. Judge
Brentano would simply smother him.
~eA
a college president recently suggested
that public libraries ought to burn their
dead books. by dead books" he means
those that have not been asked for once
In five years. Thcreupon a librarian
writes to the Philadelphia Record that
among other backs on his shelves which
have not been asked for once In five
years are TON jones'" "Tristram
Shandy," Plato" "The HAD" "Dan.
to-" "The Aeneid," Marlowe's Jews Of
Malta" Sponsors "Faerie Queene."
pope's poems, the plays Of Beaumont
and Fletcher. and "vathck." There are
several more books on his shelves, he
says, which. under the college presi.
dents definition, would be dead
books" but. he says. III We should
burn them the loss to the library would
be, l fancy, rather perceptible." 1t Is
likely that the college president had
In mind when he made his sweeping
suggestion the uncalled for fiction Of the
cheaper sort which numbers up the
shelves OF every library. 1t might be
an excellent thing to get rid OF most
OF this, but II would be more profitable
to dispose Of It to the second hand deal.
ers than to burn II. But, on the other
hand, the late DR.. Poole. who had had
large experience with books. used to
say never destroy any book. Some
time. 1t may be a year hence or nifty
years hence, some person will wish that
book" 1t does not follow book Is
valueless because not called for. 1t
may be doubted. indeed, whether any
book ever dies. Books may DO unused
for years, then unexpectedly come into
demand. They may have long periods
OF resting and come to be almost for.
gotten; then public interest revives In
them and they are rs great favOrites as
cs ever. Witness the new edition Of
the novels OF Miss Burney, Richardson.
ana others, which were long ago sup.
posed to be dead" In the sense I'm.
piled by the college president, and wit.
ness also the great demand for them.
His suggestion was most unfortunate
one. PlIny the elder used to say that
mo book was SO bad but some gOOd
might be got out Of It," and Cervantes
repeated this sage observation In "DOn
QuiXOte."
II an Italian wants TO praise wo.
man most highly, he does not tell Won
she Is beautiful, or that she Is witty, or
but he sums up her virtues by
saying she Is simpatica. What praise
this really Is, and how much happier
The world would be II only Il larger
number Of us deserved 1t! Sympathy
Is a great power as y maker of sun.
shine. Think OF the most sympathetic |
man or woman you know. ana think
how great and cheering an influence
hat person exercised over You In some
line OF trouble and anxiety. Very like.
y you may have felt ut the time that |
iad you been alone you could not have
Iornc the weight of care or sorrow.
nut with the friends sympathy were
able both to bear 1t, and even to spare
bought ana sympathy for other people
like mercy, "blesseth him
hat gives and him that takes" ana
hose who, as 1t We're, paddock up their
lowers OF sympathy, lose great deal
II the JOY OF life. Among the poor.
'erhaps, the quality is more common
han among the rich, for certainly |
wealth, especially that which has been !,
lardly gained, seems to cause the
rowth OF crust Of selfishness round
ormer kindly hearts and renders them
ard, when poverty and sorrow would
ave made them tender. |,
Human life Is a school. 1t begins In
he mothers arms and ends only ON
he great Graduation Day when Il
n your diploma and mine
hall be written either "Well II