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Highland Park News-Letter (1904), 11 May 1907, p. 1

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€311ch 'l‘ho pushy-of the Goa-'0 hon til-Won mm whirlpool of “one. ll not on «not to ho doploud. 1!, Indeed, Woll “not mod .11 olnllor mum noun won wlpod ol! the boo of common. my on honest bulineu would be aged from oollopoo, ood the get-rich-qnick Ichomco would to loo- III- moms. l1 Gnu loot “0.000.000 the question comes thou did In (at. it? How may boom onurprluo were oquooood out! crushed to dad-h am he might pllo up 3 mount-lo 0! gold I“ one lollor o! whleh did he urn? sod 1! ho now In. loot who: was not his who lu- won it? How null do. the world loco In an. mt. ”not: of -¢hlmbloi'ig;iug ? Isl-k Tvgsin hse more thsn onee been reported deed sud each time he takes hie own my ot.eny- ing it. According to the lstest. story he use lost M H. H. Roger's "yacht of ammonium. flooding the story, whhe in his home in fifth eve. nne. New York. he issued this easement: “Bo port. 0! my desth hue been [may exaggersted, I sm not aboard Ir. Roger‘s yscht.bnt jnsp pedâ€" dling my own canoe." This reminds as o! the tenuous English lecturer, Thomas Cooper. who sew nu snnounoement of his own death in severe! newspapers. Bo Wrote [to one of them, _enonir-‘ lug: “Will you pleue inlorm. me of the ptfuflb lore of my death end when snd where I‘m to be buried ss I desire to be present st the fungal.” “The Bonnie Brier-hush” is still too freehand. green for the memory of its nuthor to pus they. And yet its enthor, ‘Inn Mseleren,’ (Rev. John Watson) is no more ’smong men. Coming to this country for e lecture tour 'he won “locked on April 23, while in lows. with n severe one of ton- silltis from which blood poleoniug resulted and he died at Mount Pleasant on Me: 6. He was s pro- liflc writer of magazine ertlcles end the Author of nevernl volumes. As 0. preacher he rsnked unong the oblent: but it was his churning little Scotch classic thet mide his usumed neme tenuous. Never since Burn. wrote the "Cotter'sfleturdny Night" has there been so bountiful sud gnphic e picture of the strong. vigorous heelthiul charecter of I. plan: Scotch home-life. end never since Scott wrote “The Heart of Midiothien‘ has the simple love of o Scottish mniden been told with ell the [rent possibilities involved uin this sweet rich 1mm Itory in the purest of Scottish tongueâ€"the Bonnie Brier-hush. Mummyâ€"tho nun. which Dr. Wuhan [no to an vllhge of Wmnd.-will long be uno- chtod with Dnuuhengh. Domsic and mm. ll.- ohu u the home of that ointment-fie mush vulugcn W0 would ruin: huo boon the “that M “all not: “an an pone-an of Boekefellor’l million. Volume 20 0ur 0utlaok HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS, MAY 11 General Fred D. Gnnt who. following the or mot his illustrious fnthcr. I: n afloat 0! ul- vnnood ml: in the U. 8. army. Roe-nu: hem W himself in vigorous torn:- ln microns. to tho hnbit o1 Inning strong drink. Bin wovdn m ("In to the pun directly from his own pen. and taken nltogothcr. with bit position a n million out] nMJhoytonn onto! tho woightinnt nth!- nnoawohnvomrunjintuwo! tho puotiooot totnl Ihnunenen. "Toll young men." any. the (30an “that Gout-l Cult do“ not drink n drop of liquorâ€"hoe not lot eighteen yousâ€"ho- one. he in oft-nil to drink it. Itriedtodrink with extreme mm. been-e i knew that ol- oohol isthe wont poinon‘n Inn could tnke into his Iystem; but I found it wen u ohoolnto impol- nlbility to mink Wkly) lemme modern“ drinking in o prnetiui impouihility. I beam on nhnolnto teetotnlonâ€"n «not, it yon phone. I will not nilowitin mg. m Def-hie tum enm, bean-o practically nil orimennd nll disaster on the remit of it. Ninety-five per cent of donor- .tiono and not. of Inwienneu in the army ore due to drink. it I could. by ofl'ering my body tutori- flee, tree this country from the fell cancer, the de- mon drink. i'd thunk. the Almighty for the privi- lege of of doing it. If I ind the grenteet oppoint- in power: in the country, no nun would get even the smallest appointment from me nnleee he showed proof of his obnointo teewtoiinm. As it in. of my owu nppointe'ee, the members of my 3M. not one of them touches a drop. They know he:- And now, u if to give emphuie to Gen. Grent’e weighty words, Bob Burdette comes out in strong equine: the nloon. Ii {cem- thut the liqnor pepers lave been cutting out little bite of his speeches and piecing them in such order an eppeqr to commend the 33100:: business end no. he make the matter quite plein. Hate in whet. Bob aye: “if the saloon men insist on quoting me on this topic, let them commit this to memory, that they may repent it,” they need it: I do not know one good thing nbout the saloon it is no evil thing that hes not one redeeming thing in ell its history to commend it to good men. It brooks the low: of God and man. It deeecretee the Sabbath; it profenes the name of religion; it deflee public order; it trample: under foot the tendemt {eel- ing of hnmnity; it in o morel pestilence thet blighte the very etmoe'phere of town and country; it is e stein upon honeety; e blur upon purity;n clog upon progrcu; e cheek upon the noblerim- pol-en; it in en incentive to (silenced. deceit end crime. From loch n hetetul founteimheu on there ever flow I clear etreen? Con you none one good thing the «loan he: done {or humnltyâ€" one good thingâ€"hut one inetonce in which it he. brought forth fruit- unto righteoueoeee-one tolu- eoee. eweet end heelthlnl. end pore, Mend 0ur Uutlook bountiful, which will linger lovingly in the noun- ory 0! non. when you here hurled the run power, to nuke than ssy. “God bless the snloon for the good u. did?" Bosnia through the mm, at an. hstefni thing. end rend one once over which some mother esn how her (rental heed snd thank God !or sll the seloon did doc her boy. There is no eleh record. 'All its history iswritten ln hue Ind blood. with slnesrs of shame and “shoot erilno. end dnrk biotso! diner-es. Ken. ere you going to stsnd for this thing? Are you going to vote tor It? Are you going to put into oflee. in city or country. men who will be the tools of the saloon power? As you love the (sir nun: of your city get together and nuke your lives snd your united strength tell for oil thstishestsndehsn‘atin good government." Rom: J. Bum-fin. » 1907 ‘ In the not anyone in column: confront-d hymn hunting-aver, low of us think mm him 3"?" than to put one copper coin {or the ‘nooe’ ‘jonml’ or ”merino ’ We eon buy of lulu o new edition olmoet every hoax-o! the they. Re sell: 12 o’clock st 10. or 8 oclook otl. and done- timee we con buy the 5 o'clock 'pyple’ ot 8. In Chm there no fully one thouundof these boys, of whom two hundred are members 0! the lie)". boy e Protective association organized in Much. 1002. Thin in not. e union withinthe meaning of the trade. union end unnot. enter the American Federation of Lebor Iinee m memb'en m not wnge emere. They ere memhenteâ€"hnying and telling and their ueoeietlon in for name! protec- tion. for defense Igninat enemlee end upped: to the city nuthoritiee when their “earned rights ere trampled upon. The older members neqniee 3 street earner end their sands at these corner-de- velop into fixed values ranging from $100 to woo. The four corners of Clark and Mndieon street. nu estimued by their owners is worth $2.000. None of the corner men enrn less then 81 I day, and nanny earn from 86 to 810. x But. the problems of the greater army 0? llmtle fellows engaged in the bueineee ere numerous. end many e life's story, forming n tregedy of ml life could be written out of them. 0! 1000 ofvehem e committee of the Pederetlon of Chicego Settlement reported thet they tensed in eye from 5 w 22, 127 or 12 per cent. of them were under 10. Among the number were 42 ltellnne, 25 Amerioene, u Ger- mene, 16 Irish and 8 Jewe. Ther everige eerninge were 38 acute per dey. These children of the “reek ere volvul in meny dengueâ€"physical end moral. hey ere the content. problem of the echool fluent. omeerâ€"end every etreet. oer oondncA tor Made it. eeeler to tolerefie then to, euppreee “gem, eepeclelly no the public (ledly petronlne t II. v There le en ordinenee egeinet hon under 10 or flu under 16 ’eellln. mepepen in we eta-ea. 3 ln epfle of am there ere ner e number of ehildren end not e few newe rle on the M «Chm Vefll.nM officer-”ham 0m- Dutloolr Number 19

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