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Show DYING RICH. Andrew Carnegie, at a reception( was asked by a young girl if he reallj h. -lleved that it vvas? a dlsfrraee to die rich. Mr t'nrnegie parried the question grat ' fully "Well." hp said, "I Should hate, after my death, to have such a speech made about tne as an old cobbler once made alciiit a millionaire. This millionaire had boon notoriously notorious-ly close-fisted all his life His tomb was a magnificent one. and on it was curved the Biblical verse: " 'He that Glvcth to the poor lendeth to the lord ' The cobbler, having known the millionaire, mil-lionaire, took occasion to visit his tomb as soon .is U w.is completed lie examined ex-amined the monument carefully Then he read aloud the verse upon It. Afterward After-ward he commented on the verse like this " True, very true. But when that man died the Lord didn't one him a cent.' ' t |