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So oompletelv was his life given up to muting money that he did not undertake to distribute his vast fortune even by hi: will.~ It was practically all left to Mrs Ssge to dispose of, and it will sure- i y go to educations] and charitable uses. There was this great. diflerence between Mr. Suge and many hundreds of thousands of other men who have his aim-41o resisted Ill‘soft. luxurious. nnd apendthrift temptations. He was a tong und there was no humbug thou: him. He did not wish to make money in order to indulge his appetite- or to load a life of luxury. , He is said to have worn u chap sir-w lat for two was. He lived ‘in very modest. honing He uade no ,dinplgy. He lad no convemionnl'ilees' or extrsvmnees. He had ill the stern virt'ureso! his tardy Connecticut ances- tor-2;. TheseimpLy i' strong} ind positive chim- ‘ternnot'mre peuurionnnm. During his long life of.ninety yours, almost eighty of which were Work- ing years, the habits of ulmost. all snee'eutul people in the United Sum chunged Iron: frugal Ind aim. ple whys to ways of more ‘or less luxury and dia- phy. But Mr. tinge did not change. Mhe sum of Russell Sage”: lite work, then. was to collect from less eble and resolute men than him- sel! a large fortune which will be given to educate the people and to prevent entering. Yet these pur- poses were not the moin purposes of his life. After ell, the cosmic forces of society do sometimes use men for the general welfare, and the individual is swallowed up in the larger economic“ or social movement. II The death in London of Mr. Alfred Beit. the South-Airmen “diamond king." closed one of the most remurksble careers of our time and dissipated one of the largest private 'fortunes in the world. Mr. Beit was of German birth (he gave e foundat- ion for a university to his nstive city. Hamburg); he became s British subject and spent the last yeere of his life in London: but his extreordinury career wee worked out in South Africa. He "ilnsnced" the J umesou nid, which preclpiteted the Boer Wer. He was the pertner of Cecil Rhodes end the cool executive. commercial influenee thet worked with thet conquering adventurer. through eommerclsl orgshiution. revolution. and during continents! developement, towerd the bringing of South Africe within the organised world. There .is no more thrilling or romtie story in the long list of Engl- ish adventures over sees then the sehievelnents of A lerge part a! the world regarded Mr. Russell Sega u 3 penal-ions nun; end so he was. eeeordlugl to the modern ependthrln eteodud of life. But in each s judgement. thin modern spendthrlft etenderd must. 3t lent eh ere hlem: with Mr. Sege'e heblh. For hé‘had a very clear philosophy of lifeâ€"to make money. It is the eeme elm ch“ 3 considerable pert of our population hes. even 3 coneldenhle part of those who suecee-l lll where Mr. Sue me. needed emuzlngly well end who criticise hie per. sonul hablu. Yet chey were the very personal hebiu a men ought to here whoee chief elm in to nuke money. .Pnbl'uhed cvety Saturday at Highlmd Park,- Illinois By the Sheridan Road Publishing Company RALPH 1. LEE. Manager Subscription Price 31.50 a Year. 5 Cents the C1 Highland Park Newg-Lcttcr vaut the Put was. Highland Park, Ilka: ma clan mum. SATURDAY snrrzmm 15m, 1906 Two Remarkable Men mistâ€"mam psi-1i: WJW. September. 1906. - Minutes of meeting: during nonth of Ant-st Ire and mad approved. on the West side .9! Linden avenue. neu- bridge north of Elm Pl ‘ Moved end seconded thet the oommnnieetion received Ind pieced on file. Motion prevsiled. ‘ - Street and Alley Committee reported ls follows: , “Your Street snd Alley Gannnittee. to whom wee referredtne petitions for street lights on Cent- rnl nn’d Revine‘Aveunes, with power to not, hove ordered an are light on Central Avenue west, near City Limits, also two 30 esndie power incendeecent lights on Ravine Avenue between Linden end For- est Avenues. ,“Your Committee hove artfully considered‘the street. light. question and would recommend I! follows: » , “One 30 c. p. light on Ravine place. One Arc light at corner of Midlothinn and Homewood Ave- nues. One 30 c. p. light on St. Johns Avenue north of Moinine Bond. One'30 c. 1).» South and of For- est Avenue bridge. One 30 e. p. light on St. Johns place North of Vine Avenue. One Arc light corner of Bloom and Logan Streets. One 80 c. p. light on Linden Avenue between Elm P1. and Vine Avenue. “We recommend the vmtin'g of Deer-field Ave- nue and Green Bay Road. provided the City is reimâ€" bursed for all expenditures for special assessments etc., and the City is permitted to maintain sewer and water line. ’ “We recommend the grading and growling of the County Line Road, in conjunction with Cook County Commissioner: on per profile made by City Engineer. " Aid. Shields reports that he received a letter from the Fért Sheriden Authorities in answer to the one he wrote them concerning the disposal of sewer-go st Fort Sher-Men. and thst aid Author- ities report tint the mutter wili be taken up, st The Fire end Wear Committee report thet Xer- ine Diver Noon would chm-[e une City 0150.00 for Communication from A. W. Bergmann. com- plsining of the umnitnry condition of the premis- es in the rear of his house in Buviniu. loved and seconded that. the communication be rcferrcd to the Seven-use Committee. Motion proniled. Moved sod seconded thu the report of the Com- mittee be tceepted end upproved. ‘Cerried. Communication from the Public Libnr! Bonrd. requesting that the sum of 81.500 be npproprinted to meet a deficit incurred in constructing the Lib- rary Building. Moved nnd seconded by M. ano ner, that bonds in the mm of $1,500.00 beinned to meet the deficit in~the Library Fund. pnynble 8500. mannunlly, until .u of aid bonds on redeemed nnd that the City Attorney beinstructed to prepare ordinance providing for the isgning of said bonds. to be n'cted npon nt the next regnlnr meeting of the Council. Carried. Communication from Kennet Cow“. "questing the Council to monaider the latter of sidowslk “nu two non. A unique tlld characteristic not 0! Hr. Bait m the loving of A very hm II- ‘0 b- ud in tank. eriug mill-cod and velar-pl: developmnt in Aides, especiauv the Cope-Io-Cdro rout A: um: Ir. Rhoda, bi: (Ionian: impala I" we impulse o! Communication from I. )1. king. concerning the pnving of Laurel nvenne In front 0' st. Mary‘s Church. Moved nnd seconded by: Aid. Lcnming. thnt ‘ho communication be referred to the Street. nnd Alley Comminen. Motion provailedf tho “empire butlhr":ud m «Md Mal In.“ "atrium. nun Ins Induldtl devalue nont. -'l‘hc World! Work. Minuwgsuenlu.msloc of the (my Con-nu Council Meeting ”01'0me e Conch .4 Gum Colonel of the Red Hnmn «Scott Boo“ Bracken oheed 13qu man 11 youth but knew 1 ., Cutie ‘ 027i Scholars doughter ‘ ‘ ' Burnden Hts-c Way of the Gods Long buw Gel-den, You end I Wright W933 Awakening of Helen Richie Delend D37. Robert Orange - Robber 1105:- Out of due time Word W219 Lady Baltimore Winter W‘Mah Return of Sherlock Holmes D6yle D77re Home boot on the Styx Range 1328 Jungle Sincleir Bio” Tides of Barnegat ' Smith Smiti Devin of e tomorrow Burnett 398d Susan Clegg Lnd'lie‘r neighbore’ mire Sunley 726 80.2 Essays in literature and history Fronde 824 F93 Characters of ShnkeApeu-e’ I plays Hazlett 82A 883 Glory seekers - Brown 973.3 381 From 1 Cornlah window Couch 824 083 Cicero in Maine ‘ Dunn 814 D92 Childhood 31: B58 Attention: tnd ndnptionn 6f Shukelpeare Peter the whder Kingsley jlflfip ConeernlngPunl And Fitment [lurker 582” Young O’Brien. 13161 Chronicles-o! England. In”. bid Spam Diplomutic Adventures Mlpchell Fenwick’l Career Ward Throwback ' Lewis Coninton Churchill Lody Betty acros- the wner Wimamson Tonia, non of the Sierra King Truce:- of lost persons Chambers Household of Sh- fl‘homn Ion Inning Captain Singlebtfil - Defoe Chunk“ A ' ' Wood ‘_ Luca of the sun Palmol- , ' Ola-nod Lint Animal and plan; correspondence Kip p70 KG: Mind nnd body ._ Kip 510 K6231:- Nowlnternniionnl Encyclopaedia 20 1013 031 lnl Voytges of Discovery Cook 910 0772 Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile Speke 916. 2 Spat Canada, the new nttion Whue- 9X7.l W55 Guide to the Opt: ‘ Singleton 780 816 Historicgl {nemo'riuln of Cungcrbury chafing the «ulnar M the on“! out! 0! tho but. pipe. .ud tint It in qmuionuhlo with tho Cou- nlneo whether the uni!" M'degnin. or not. tron "to {not thut flu dim annoyed but you to investigate. n-pomd “auto gal-duo: u. in good condition. , - loved and ueoudod. the tdopuon of on ordlnv am unlit-g on or‘diunoq pudding for tho oomlrudon o! I count. com; sidewalk ‘P the «our-1y Me of lovin- I’lq'u. troll the author], tomb-s 0! mid Bula- Pluo. in the City at High; loud Pork. Conntyo! Luke Old St.“ of 1mm “‘1'.“ “I. muw. LIX: -1' â€"wm sue MI“ port. of I! kind Avouuo. he the Guy of likblgnd ark. Cur loved 3nd seconded. that. the miter of sewer- m for McDaniel: Avenue be retort-«Mo the Bond of Local Improvement... Moflon prenilod. -. . Adjournpd. _ New Books Entered in the Pubic Librgry ' Auguu and Septembet 1906. Fiction V Waoousu. a. “lo 0! the Pontioc Oomph-u, Richordoon 8363 Diplomtie Advenmru Mischa“ MGM! Moved uad seconded the do ption at an ordin- ance nesting put of Bloom Strut in the Guy at Highlntd Puk. Carded. 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