The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-18

scorn All ask iv M City in rayturn
fr a fifty thousan' deilar libry is that
it shall raise wan Tnillyon dollars to
maintain tn buildin' an keep me name
shiny an if it won't do that much FIR
Iithrachoor, tn divvle. take it it's I'M
worthy iv tn name iv an American
city. What ivry community needs is
taxes an lithrachOor. I give thin both.
Three cheers FIR a libry an a bonded
debt! Lithrachoor, taxation an An
dhreW Carnaygie, wan an insiprable,
now an foriver! They's nawthin' SO
good as a good book. It's betther thin
food; it's betther thin money. 1 have
made money an books, an | like me
Eooks betther thin me money. Others
don't. but 1 do.eWith these few wurruds
[ viii con- eluQe sModesty wud prevint
me- FIRM sayfn more, but l have to
catch "a thfatns an cannot go on. I
stake We to tbis li4rgs which We VIII
have asSsoo9l as ye raise th,emoRey to
keep. it goin'.7S. Stock it with useful
readfn' an sUnfe day, ye're otherwise
pauper-. M rjmipaf. ehildher will come
to know me name whin I am gone an
there's no wan Isft4 toSteil- it Thin
'.Whin tn historyan comes to write
tn histhry iv tn West,s he'll. say: GePf-
sanola, IoWay, was a prosperous town
till tn failure iv tn corn crop in niile-t
teen hundred an wan, an the car.
maggie 1ibry. in nineteen hundred am
two. Th' goVernmint asst FIR thirty dol
lars to, pave Main sthreet with wooden
blocks, but tn great philanthropist
was firm an tn libry was sawed off
on tn town. TIL public schools, tn
workhouse, tn Wather =Wurruks an tn
other penal instichoochIons was at
wanst closed an tn people begun 70
wurruk to support tn libry. In five
years tn population had deserted tn
town to escape taxation an now as
Mr.. Carnaygie promised, poverty an
crime has been abolished in tn place.
tn janitor iv tn buildin' bein' honest
an well-paid'
isn't il good FIR lithrachoor, says We?
Sure, 1 think not, HfnnIssy. Libries
niver encouraged 1ithrachoor amy
mere thin tombstones encourage livin.
No wan liver wrote anything because
he was toT that a hundherd years firm
now his books might be taken down
firm a shelf in a granite sepulcher an
some wan wud write,tRGood or This
man is crazy in tlla4inargin. What
lithrac hCor needs is film food If An
dhreW Wud put Kitchen in tn Iibries
an build some hunks or aYen swing a
few hammocks where Twin authors cud
crawl in at night an sleepwhile waitin
FIR this enlightened nation to wake up
an discover tn Shakesperes now. on
tn turf, he Wud be givin' a ra1e boost
to lithrachoor. With tn smoke curtin
firm tn chimbley an hundreds iv
potes settin' arOun a table loaded down
with pancakes an talldn pothry~anI
prize fightin', with hundherds iV other.
potes stacked UP nateIy in tn sleepin'
eroon1s an snorin' in wan gran chorus.
with, their wives holdin' downsfgood-.
paYin'. jobs as libraryans OF, qooISsaatl,.
their happy little childher piayin'
through tf1Hf1arble corrydof s A HUI 1feiW2.
Earnaygie, Wud not have liERaFiaY tstsfhsH
Maybe that's tn on'y way .aAa4 ISnOMss9
how to live I don't believe in ibrfes.
They pa uperize lithrachoot. E III IF
helpin TIL boys that's laeMsoll tn II
I know a pete in HaEslgea fllreat that
Wanst wrote q pore begini1fn "a ffs til
wealth iv Ind.athat he sold to a nlas1+
azine FIR tWQ dollars payable on publy--
cation. Lithrachoor don't need, ad-
Yancin. NVglliat1 6nee eds is slts#aneesefsrs
tn lithraG hoaFsAs.Ye can t: kemdazyn
posterity fl tn price.
'All tn Same I like Andrew g fn;aa "
gle. Him n, me ar-re agreed 3enAt that.
point.I like him because he ain,tsshanl-
ed to give publicly. Ye don't find him
putin on false wIgiskers an turnin' Up
his coat collar win he goes out to be
BENEVOLENT No, sir. Ivry time he
dhrops a dollar, it makes a noise like
a waiter fallfn' down stairs with a tray
iv dishes. He's givin' tn way we'd all
like to give. I niver put anything in
tn peof box but l wud if Father Kelly
wud rig it up like wan iy thin slot ma
chimes so that whin I.put In a nickel
me name Wud appear over tn altar in
red letthers. But whi41 / put a dollar
in tn plate, get back about two yarCE
an hurl it SO hard that tn good man
turns around to see who done it. Do
good be stealth, says I, but see that tn
burglar alarm is set. Amy BENEVOLENT
money [ hand out, l want to talk about
me. Him that giveth to tn poor, they
say, 1indeth to tn Lord, but in these
days, we look f'r quick rayturns on our
invistmints. l like Andrew 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
hes gin'rous. Ivry time he gives a
libry,. he. gives hin1sflf away in
| speech.''