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Show Carnegie's Title of Nobility. Andrew Carnegie has been telling stories at Greenock, Scotland, about his forefathers, of whom ho is very proud. "We were great radicals," he says, "not to say incipient republicans republi-cans In Dunfermline in the early days. I remember the cavalry parading parad-ing the streets of Dunfermline to quell riots. An old lady recently sent me a copy of a handbill, In which an appeal is made for 300 to defend my uncle from the charge of conspiracy in holding hold-ing a Chartist meeting which was dispersed dis-persed by the sheriff. I have It framed fram-ed as my best title of nobility, that one of our family was In jail for defending de-fending the right of public meeting." |