The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-18

| ~ libry. I pass thin by with scorn.
All | ask Nv a city in rayturn FIR
fifty thousan' dollar libry is that IL
shall raise wan millyon dollars to
maintain tn buildin' an keep me.ns1e
shiny an If 1t won't do that mdcnf'r
lithrachoor, tn divvle take 1t it's on
worthy iv tn name Nv an American
city. What ivry community needs Is
taxes an lithrachoor. l give thin
both. Three cheers FIR libry an
bonded debt! Lithrachoor, taxation an
Andrew Carnaygie, wan an insipr-
able, now on foriver! Theyse nav
thin so good as a good book. It's
betther thin food; it's betther thin
money. l have made money an books,
an l like me books betther thin me
money. Others don't, but l do. With
these few wurruds 1 will conclude.
| Modesty wud prevint me firm sayin
more, but | have to catch a thrain an
| cannot go on. ] stake we to this libry
which We will have as soon as We raise
tn money to keep II goin'. Stock 1t
with useful readin' an some day, ye're
otherwise pauper an criminal childher
will come TO know me name whin l am
gone an there's no wan left to tell II
Thin
"Whin tn HISTORIAN comes to write
tn hsthry Nv tn West. he'll say:
'Pianola, Ioway, was a prosperous
town till tn failure Nv tn corn crop
in nineteen hundred an wan an the
Carnaygie libry in nineteen hundred
an two. TIL govermint asst FIR thirty
dollars to pave Main sthreet with
wooden blocks, but tn gr-reat philan-
thropist was firm an tn libry was
sawed off on tn town. TIL public
schools tn workhouse, tn wather wur-
ruks an tn other penal instichoochi-
ons was~at wanst closed an tn people
begun to wurruk to support tn libry.
In five years tn population had desert
ed tn town to escape taxation an
| now as Mr.. Carnaygie promised, power
ty an crime has been abolished in tn
| place. tn janitor Nv tn buldin' beln'
| honest an weli-paid.'
Isn't II good f'r lthrachoor, says
| ye? Sure, l think not Hinnissy. Lii
bries niver encouraged lithrachoor an
ny more thin tombstones encourage
| Twin. No wan liver wrote anything
! because he was toll that a hundred
years firm now his books might be
taken down firm shelf in a granite
| sepulcher an some wan wud write
| Good or This man Is crazy in tn
| margin. What lthrachoor needs is
film food. If Andrew wud put
kitchen in tn lbries an build some
hunks or aven swing a few hammocks
| where Twin authors cud crawl in a
l
enlightened nation to wake UP an
| discover tn Shakespeares now on tn
| turf, he wud be givin' a, rale boost to
| lithrachoor. With tn smoke curlin'
| firm tn chimbley an hundreds Nv
| potes settln aroun' a table loaded
down with. pancakes an talkin' poth-
ry an prize fightin, with hundreds
iv other potes stacked up nately in tn
sleepin' rooms an snorin' In wan
gran chorus, with their wives hodin
| down good-payin' jobs as librayans
or cooks an their happy little childher
| playin' through tn marble corrydors,
Andrew Carnaygie wud not have
| lived in vain. Maybe that's tn on'y
way he knows how to live 1 don't
believe In libries. They pauperize lith-
rachoor. I'm f'r helpin' tn boys that's
| now on tn job. l know a pote in
Halsted sthreet that wanst wrote a
pome beginning All tn wealth iv Ind
that he sold to a magazine FIR two
dollars payable on publication. Lith-
rachoor don't need advancn'. What 1t
needs is advances f'r tn lithraehoors
Ye can't shake down posterity FIR tn
price.
"All tn same I like Andrew Car
maggie. Him an me ar-re agreed on
that point. / like him because he amt
shamed to give publicly. Ye don't find
him putin on false whiskers an turn
IN up mis- coat collar Whin he goes out
to be BENEVOLENT. No, sir. Ivry time he
dhrops a dollar 1t makes a noise like
waiter fallin' down stairs with a tray
Nv dishes. He's givin' tn way we'd
all like to give. l niver put anything
in tn poor box, but / wud IL Father
Kelly wud rig 1t up like wan Nv thin
slot machines, so that whin / put in
a nickel me name wud appear over tn
altar in red letthers. But whin l put
dollar i'm tn plate, i get back two
yards an hurl II so hard that tn good
man turns around to see who done IL
Do good be stealth, says l. but see that
tn burglar alarm is set. Amy beniv-
olent money l hand out, want to talk
about me. Him that giveth to tn
poor. they say, lindeth to tn Lord, but
in these days, we look FIR quick ray
turns on our invistmints. / like An
dhrew Carnaygie an as he says, he
puts his whole soul into tn wurruk"
whats he name be that?" asked
Mr.. Hennessy.
HE Names" said Mr.. Dooley," that
he's gin'rous. Ivry time he gives a
libry, he gives himsilf away in a
speech"