Show MR CARNEGIES MUNIFICENCE The telegrams yesterday morning told of the latest donation by Andrew Carnegie ten millions to the cause of university extension A national board Is to be created to handle the great trust and It Is to have connection with all tho universities of the country coun-try Us aid will be to all the people peo-ple of the United States I Is 3 magnificent mag-nificent idea and the fact that Mr Nicholas M Butler who succeeds Mr Low as president of Columbia college and who has been one of the foremost of the forces at work for university extension Is at the head of the ad visers In the great gift IB a guarantee that wisdom and practical good sense will govern This benefaction can be and no doubt will be made a great popular aid to higher education It will allow thousands who are not able togo to-go to universities obtain a univer sity education and will be of very extensive ex-tensive aJd to tho people In all walks of life and In all professions in obtaining obtain-ing necessary Information and data essential for them in their professions and business I will be the great reliance re-liance of the people throughout the country for higher education and exact ex-act knowledge on matters not ordinarily I ordina-rily to be attained Mr Carnegies gifts for education have already placed him In a class of his own Never In tho worlds history has anything been known In this line on so broad a scale and so generally diffused I Is not only in America that he pours out his money with unstinted un-stinted hand for educational advancements advance-ments and to aid In its utmost and most widespread benefits but tho land of his birth gets millions In a ratio far abovo oven his great disposals in this country And In it all bin Scotch shrewdness sticks out ho helps those Who help thcmselvesj and does not throw his money where education Is t not appreciated Scotland first and then the United States are renowned among tho nations for the general schooling of all the youth and to these Mr Carnegie gives well knowing that tho money will be appreciated and that It will be put to the best possible uses by peoples who are adept In the use and application of money to school purposes And still Mr Carnegie Is liable lia-ble to suffer the disgrace of dying rich j for his money accumulates even faster than ho can give It away II I I |