CARNEGIE
WEALTH
How He Is Rapidly Distributing It
Over Two Hemispheres.
GIFT GIVING AS A SCIENCE
The "Wealthy Scotcli-Auierleati Vuem
Slethol In IUn KfTortH to Keep
Dot vn IUn SurpliiM .So am
of IUn IIiiIum.
fO MAN of modem times has
hpfn nn iiiiinh fn thn nubile
eye ns the subject of this
sketch. The newspapers and
magazines of two continents
discovered several years ago
a lrultful theme In the remarkable and
systematic benefactions of the great
steel magnate, and as the millions slnco
then have poured In a continuous golden
stream from the $400,000,000 fortune,
which industry, opportunity, Scotch
thrift and rare powers of organization
and management have piled up, the press
Iirs not tired of reporting and discussing
Andrew Carnegie and his gifts, aud the
public has not grown weary reading
these stories. The fact of the matter Is,
tliat in Andrew Carnegie, the phllan
throplstand public benefactor, "the world
lias been given a new view of the rich
man and his money. Never before In the
liistory of man has such a settled policy
tor the distribution of an immense for-
pi
SK1EO CASTLE. MR. CARNEGIE'S SCOTLAND HOME.
tune by an individual in his lifetime
been heard of.
There are at least two distinct epochs
In the life of Mr. Carnegie one marked
by the accumulation of wealth, the oth
er by the administration of wealth. The
story of his career, from the time he
came to this country with his parents
and brother and started to work In a cot
ton factory at Allegheny City as "bobbin
boy" at $1.20 a week until ho welded to
gether the gigantic steel corporation, and
left Its active management to others,
reads like a romance. But the story of
the accumulation of Andrew Carnegie's
fortune, while intensely interesting and
while it shows what a young man can
accomplish who is not afraid of hard
work, who is ambitious and who has
the business instinct and foresight, still
1t is not strikingly different from the
biographies of other of the world's suc
cessful business men. Tho story of the
accumulation of wealth Is an old one.
But the story of tho administration of
wealth as exemppllfled by Mr. Carnegie
is unique and unparalleled. It warms
the public heart with the thought of a
new relationship between wealth and
the masses, and it has caused other rich
men to pause and ponder anew the re
sponsibilities of their possessions. As
an accumulator of wealth Mr. Carnegie's
history is closed. As an administrator
of wealth Mr. Carnegie has, is might be
said, only begun a career and his achieve
ments in this new sphere of activity
promises to be even more remarkable
than those of his active business life,
and he is bringing to bear upon this now
task to which he has called himself tho
same hard common sense, the same busi
ness abilities, the same Integrity of pur
pose, ns characterized him as the builder
of a fortune.
Mr. Carnegie In his "Gospel of
Wealth" clearly states his position. Aft
er calling attention to the three modes
In which surplus wealth can be disposed
of, namely: By inheritance to the fam
ily of the decedent; by bequest to public
and philanthropic purposes, and by ad
ministration during the lifetime of tho
possessor, he argues to show why tho
last named method is tho wisest and
best. And true to his convictions, Mr.
Carnegie is systematically and thor
oughly carrying out his plans and giving
a practical working demonstration of
the best and highest mission of tho rich
man.
Tho tremendous task to which Mr. Car
negie has set himself is made apparent
wheP ono considers the fortune to be
lCany for Hir.
"Shr.'t: rcther flirt than eat."
"Huh! I saw her in a restaurant
yesterday doing both at once." Phila
delphia Bulletin.
I'a Id Tor.
i3 mat au nor own hair?"
"I suppose so. I heard her say she
I T . ... . . .
dlsposed of and the caro anS wisdom
with which every dollar is being ad
ministered. A painstaking Englishman
figured out In 1901, when Mr. Carnegie
first began his philanthropic campaign,
what Mr. Carnegie must do If he suc
ceeded In disposing of the bulk of his for
tune by the time he is 80 years old. Mr.
Carnegie was then 67 years of ago and
allowing, ho said, a fortune of ,C 25,000,
000 to remuln undistributed at Mr. Car
negie's death, "a modest" sum he callls
It, ho would still have from 50,000,000
to 55,000,000 to dispose of during the
13 years probably remaining to him.
"That Is to say, unless death Is to over
take him at 80 with more than the 25,
000,000 still undistributed he will have to
rid himself of -1,000,000 a year, every
year until 1914. Now 4,000,000 a yeai
Is a tidy sum of money, the vastness ol
which It is hard to conceive. If Mr. Car
negie were to give away a five pound
note a minute to everybody whocared to
apply for It, ho would at the end of n
year oven supposing that he denied
himself all sleep and worked night and
day, week days and Sundays, handing
out. bis five pouuils notes a minute find
that ho had disposed of only about 2,
500,000 pounds and he would still have
1,500,000 left over to play with; from
which Itfollows that taking interest into
consideration in the 13 years of life that
still presumably remain to Mr. Carnegie
ho must melt Ills gold or distribute his
money at a rate of elglit notes a minute
day in and day out, making no deduc
tions either for sleeping time or Sundays.
Even at that rate he will still have his
25,000,000 left for his heirs."
But Mr. Carnegie does not distribute
a ' mm
L mm,
his wealth In that way. Ho has very post
tlve views in regard to his benevolences
and like the stubborn Scotchman that
he is, he never swerved from the one rule
of helping those who help themselves,
and never helping directly an individual.
It would take a big volume to tell of all
tho chanols which have felt the thrill
of the golden stream of his wealth. As
the American public already knows Mr.
Carnegie's favorite form of gifts is In li
braries to cities, and the amount which
he gives is based upon the amount which
the city pledges itself to raise yearly
for tho maintenance of the library. So
far there are nearly 200 of these Car
negie libraries in this country, extending
from Maine to California and from the
Gulf to Canada. The little land of Scot
land is dotted with over a score of these
monuments to education, and England
and Ireland have not been forgotten.
Ills native town of Dumfermline has not
only been given a library, but a tech
nical school and public baths. In this
country the $10,000,000 gift to the nation
to establish the National university for
advanced research is his largest single
gift. Other educational and technical
Institutions which have been founded
through Mr. Carnegie's generosity are:
At New York, Cooper union, Machanics
Institute and Bellevue Medical college;
Stevens Institute at Hoboken, N. J., an
observatory to Allegheny, and at Pitts
burg an educational Institution compris
ing technical schools, museum, music
hall and art galleries. Pittsburg natu
rally has a large place In the heart of Mr.
Carnegie, for It has been the center of all
his triumphs In the industrial and finan
cial world, and his gifts to that city have
amounted to ?7,000,000, which amount
does not include the $5,000,000 given for
tho benefit of his steel workers, in the
way of technical schools, libraries and
sick benefits for the families of the
workers. Within the past year Mr. Car
negie has given $1,500,000 for a temple
of peace and groat law library at The.
Hague, he has added to the endowment
of tho Tuskegeo institute, has given a
building to all the engineering societies
in New York City, in addition to tho es
tablishment of a perfect stream of li
braries and institutes. Thus is Mr. Car
negie conscientiously at work preach
ing in a practical way tho "gospel o
wealth," whether enjoying life at Sklbo
castle in Scotland or residing in his Now
York palatial home.
Ilotli Arc Hard.
It's almost as hard to pay back as it 1
to borrow.
never had anything- charged." Phila
delphia Bulletin. '
In IUn IIiiiuIh.
Ills Father I ' hato the thought of
your being In debt.
Tho Spendthrift Well, it depends on
you how long I'll remain so. N. Y.
Times.
NAIL-BITING A DISEASE.
The IIInriinUtik Hntilt flroivn with
(lufjfeiicc and Soou Ileuoiuca
Chronic.
The head school teacher, who sat nt
tho end of a row of six girls at a matinee,
saw one of them take off her gloves as
soon as the lights went down and tho
curtain went up. She watched, says tho
New York Press. When tho girl thought
her teacher's attention was concentrated
on tho stngo one of her hands wont to
her Hps.
"Miss Blank," said the chaperon, loan
ing over and speaking so that everybody
seated around her could hear, "I must
ask you to stop biting your nails and
jut your gloves on immediately."
The other girls tittered, and the par
ticular ono who had offended did as sho
was told, looking very much humiliated.
"Poor child," Bald a sympathetic
woman sitting in the row behind.
"I frequently find It necessary to ad
minister a rebuke of this sort to girls
with tho nnll-bltlng habit," said tho
chaperon to a friend who asked about It.
"All teachers do. A lesson of that sort
Is worth ten ndmonltlons in private.
There is no better way to break a pupil
of a bad habit like biting the nails than
to shame her out of It. I warned Miss
Blank before we started for the theater
that I should rebuke her if I caught her
biting her nails, and she promised not
to do It. When 1 saw her stealthily
drawing off her gloves I knew what
was coming. We havo to watch girls
with tho nail-biting habit In church, in
the theater, and everywhere they go In
public. It Is almost, impossible to make
them keep their gloves on.
A fashionable manicure uptown ad
vertise!, to cure nail-biting. Ho says
he has many patrons among girls niid
women.
"It Is an exceptional thing to find a
man who bites his nails," ho said to a
reporter, "bu I have known of some
cases. Nall-bltlng is a disease, the samo
as Itching scalp or nnythlngof that sort.
To a certain extent it is a habit, but tho
habit develops tho disease, which Is
called onyehopagle.
"When 1 was In Pnrls four years ago
I first learned about the treatment for
it, and at once Introduced It In my busi
ness hero. Far from being a harmless
habit, resulting only In unsightly hands,
nail-biting is a prolific cause of nervous
disorders in girls and women. II re
quires various forms of treatment, ac
cording to tho condition and surround
ings of the victim. The best time to
stop it is in childhood. Parents and
school teachers who find children biting
their nails should not only severely rep
rimand them, but punish them in a
way that will bo remembered. In my
opinion the teneher you tell about gave
the young woman a wholesome lesson."
HE DIDN'T MEAN TO.
nut tin; "Water Proie So ViiNt lie
Couldn't Help Sliding
Down Mill.
"Hero, there, y' young rapscallion,
ye," demanded Uncle Bill Abbot, relates
tho New York Sun, "where's that water
I sent ye down t' fetch over an hour
ago? Ye've been slldin' on th' hill jest
like I told ye not tor! Don't lie f me; 1
seed yer."
"I warn't slldin'," whimpered Jake,
with a futile effort to free his left ear
from Uncle Bill's paternal clutch.
"Leastwise I didn't mean f slide, even
if 1 did.
"I went right down t' th' well, an'
drawed th' water like y' told mo. But
'twas so tarnnl cold I had to keep stlr
rln' it with a stick so's 'twouldn'l
freeze.
"Jest ns I got f th' top ov' th' hill 1
wus so busy stlrrin' thet I didn't look
where I wus goin', an' I tripped on thet
old butternut root an' fell.
"An' all th' water run down hill an'
froze, an' I got my foot In It an' slipped
clean down t' th' bottom again.
"Will, knowln' as you wus in an awful
hurry for the water, I filled th' bucket
again an' started back up th' hill jes
as quick as I could scramble.
"But, as you alius says, dad, 'haste
makes waste,' an' durned If I didn't
stumble Jest In th' same place an' slide
clean down thet pesky hill again on th'
water I'd spilled.
"Hones' Injun, dad, I started up thet
hill 17 different tripB, an' every blamed
time the water I spilled froze an' I slid
all th' way back.
"On tho eighteenth trip up I'd got
sick an' tired uv the whole blamed busi
ness, an' I vummed I wouldn't slide back
thet time If all the hill froze over.
"But jest as I reached thet fool root
again, I wuz so all fired busy beln' care
ful not to trip thet I dean furgot about
stlrrin th" water with my stick. Con
sequence wuz the cling stuff froze tight
an' burst th' bucket. Hones' dad."
Uncle Bill slowly released his hold on
Jake's left ear.
"Wal," he said, doubtfully, "it Is right
chilly, I'll allow. Ye'd better take th'
tin pail this time. An' see thet ye ain't
so tarnation long about It. either."
This time Jake had bettor luck, the
only delay being when ho paused a mo
ment nt the bottom of the hill just long
enough to smash an empty wooden
bucket that was standing near the pump.
Nil In for I'limpUIn IIih.
Pecan or walnut meats, chopped and
added to pumpkin pies, give a rioh and
agreeable llavor. Itural New Yorker.
THE SPORT OF KINGS
Crowned Heads of Europe Are Ex
perts with Rifle and Shotgun.
WHEN FUR AND FEATHERS FLY
Tin .Majority of Them Slioot llroatifie
Tliey l.lkc To, Hut Cr.ur Mcliolan
KoltoWM till' CIltlNC Ill'lMtUNC
It In KiiMlilonalilv.
UIIINO his short visit to
England tho king of Italy
spent two days among tho
phensants nt Windsor, and
tho Incident reminds us
that most, If not nil, tho
crowned heads of Europe are experts
with shotgun and rifle, and devoted to
their use.
King Edward is equally at homo
among phonsnntB thnt come out high
over tho tree-tops, or return to their
cover from somo unfamiliar copse to
which they woro shepherded by skilled
beaters In tho earlier day. Ho is
reckoned a fine Bhot with tho rlllo at
driven deer a far more difficult mark
than they are genornlly supposed to be.
for tho stags let tho hinds go first
through passes that favor tho gunnor,
and tho last mad rush of tho monnrchs
of a great herd requires no little stop
ping. Italy's ruler has over been a keen
sportsman, from tho enrly days when,
K.NQ EDWARD AT A
prince of Naples, he wooed and won a
wife as ardent a follower of tho upon
life as himself. Queen Elena, daugh
ter of tho fine old "Gospodar" Prlnco
Nicholas, of Montenegro, had boon
brought up iu a sporting land, with sis
ters and brothers devoted to tho out
door pustlmes; her brothers are expert
shots, whose fame has traveled far
beyond tho narrow limits of their
father's kingdom.
Turning to Italy's associates In tho
triple alliance, we find two keen sports
men at tho head of affairs. To hln out
door work among tho hills in pursuit
of stag and chamois and varied fur or
feather, Franz Josef, tho aged Aus
trian Emperor, owes not a llttlo of his
vitality and endurance. It is no light
load of caro he must discard; at his
ago tho burden might well bo pnst
bearing. Tho bracing nlr, tho call of
tho sport, nnd the steady demand upon
brain as well as hand, serve, appa
rently, to banish the troubles that wait
on statecraft.
Tho Gorman kaiser Is a keen and
skilled performer with tho gun, and
his prowess is the more remarkable
because ono hnnd is comparatively use
less. Ho has rnmarkablo endurance,
and he, too, uses shooting ns an anti
dote to tho worry of affairs. His sons
or tho elder onos, to bo oxact aro
credited with more than common ca
pacity. One of them was shooting in
England last year on tho estates of tho
duko of Bucctouch, where his work
with tho gun was commented upon
very favorably.
Part of a French president's duties
would seem to ilo among the phea
sants. The writer has seen tho lato
French president, Felix Fauro, shoot
ing at Rambouillet; tho blograph haU
preserved the scone, and a music hall
prosented it io London. A loader In
uniform looked, after tho second gun
of M. le President; ono or two officers
correctly attired stood stifily by his
side; and tho birds wont hard down
wind, or seemed to. Tho president
shot severely and without emotion;
amid the nolso of battle ho was pro
foundly calm. Pcniaps it was tho
proper official attltudo; porhap". ho was
conscious of Ills biographer. M. Lou
bet does not look as if ho would great
ly enjoy a battue, but doubtless ho does
his duty whon Franco calls upon him
to Shoot pheasants.
It is moro than likely that tho czar
of all tho Russias'gets llttlo or no en
joyment from hi3 uso of tho gun. With
him, shooting Is a diplomatic fiction;
oven tho famous visit, made a mouth
ago, to tho preserves at Murzsteg was
a matter of necessity rnthor than
choice, anil It coind havo given him
scant pleasure to shoot In woods that
had to be surrounded for tho saka of
iC . .. " 4 . V
Vila iiS:
hln porsonal safety "by thousands of
soldiers and scores of detectives. Tho
senso of freedom that almost nil Kti
ropo's rulers may enjoy Is forbidden to
tho Llttlo Father, and no bird or boast
In all his forests has a moro anxious
life.
Abdul Hamld II., tho padlshah, tho
caliph of all Islam, doos not shoot
game. In tho first plnco, no truo be
liever will touch feather or fur that
has been killed with shot; such food la
forbidden by his diotnry laws; second
ly, Turkey's sultan files at higher gamo
and kills It by proxy. It is hardly fair
to mention his nnmo among sportsmen.
Dom Carlos, happiest of kings and
most Jovial of men, Is porhnps tho best
shot among tho crowned heads of Eu
rope. His prowess is wonderful. Al
big, heavy man, ho moves his gun with
a rapidity that must bo seen to bo bo
1 loved, and what ho alms at falls, prop
erly hit. With shotgun, rlllo, or re
volver ho Is equally export Indeed, ho
enn pierce tho marks on a playing-card
with a rovolvor at 20 paces and drop
ilying pigeons with n rlile. Ho is never
moro happy than when ho has a gun
in hand, and frequently competes
among his subjects nt tho Tlr mix
Pigeons nt Ciihciioh or olsowhoro In his
own dominions, nearly always winning
tho prize nnd novor taking It. When
Dom Carlos was In England ho was
recognized by all who had tho prlvl
lego of seeing his performances ns a
man who had nothing to fear by com
parison with that country's finest
shots.
Tho king of Spain, Alfonso XIII., la
devoted to I ho gun, and Is never hnp
I pier than whon, on tho preserves of tho
; ' r;
7 X'
DEER - DRIVE ON DEESIDE.
Pardo, ho is in pursmt or all that runs
or flies. This relaxation Is very neces
sary, for tho young monarch's health
has given great uneasiness to his Im
mediate circle. Peoplo round him
rcallzo that Madrid Is no place for
tho young king; that his host chanco
of health will como In open air and, In
cidentally, as far from Madrid as pos
sible. His lovo of sport may yot keep
him from tho trouble that took his
father from iho throne.
Gustavo, crown prlnco of Sweden
and duko of Wormland, who3o well
laden boat testifies at onco to his gifts
as a sportsman and tho quality of tho
preserves ho Ihib boon visiting, Is tho
eldest son of King Oscar II.
Old King George, of Saxony, who ha3
passed his seventieth year, is still do
voted to tho gun, though ho favors tho
comfortable fashion of sitting iu a car
riage and rising when tho birds begin
to como over. Probably tho oxcltomont
is no less.
Many of Europe's monarchs kcop
enormous gamo preserves for their
pleasure and that of their royal guests,
for European monarchs aro noted vis
itors. On a royal prcsorvo every precau
tion Is taken to maintain completo
privacy. Experienced foresters and
huntsmen alone aro permitted to pene
trate Into tho vast coverts whoro tho
wild boar and tho doer dwoll In fan
cied security. No unauthorized visi
tor enn hope to venture unchnllcngod
far beyond tho outskirts of tho pre
serves at any season. Tho great day,
or week, of tho year arrives, and for
a brief space no sanctuary of tho wood
land la inviolate: thoro aro boaters
everywhere, nnd groat masses of gamo
aro driven before tho guns along paths
that tho head huntsman has mapped
out. A vast bag Is made, tho hunting
lodge wakes to a few days of gaiety
a gaiety that Is siloncod only when
questions of high policy claim discus
sion; and then the royal party breaks
up. Tho foroBt recovers Its accintomod
serenity: tho survivors of tho great
days find their wny back to favored
haunts; their terror or norvousnoss
passes away as weok succeeds to week,
leaving thorn undisturbed, tho advent
of tho spring finds all their troubles
forgotten.
Ili'cnlvfiiNt Cynic.
"The woman who picks out a husband
because ho Is a good dancer," said tho
breakfast cynic, "is on par with tho man
who picks out a wlfo because sho can
make fudge." Chicago Daily News.
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He May I tako ycu to our animal
show ? ,
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cinnati Commercial Trlbuh' :
