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Show POOR BOY HAPPIEST, SI1VS i GJUWEHE. Multimijlionaire Ironmonger Tells How Difficult. It Is for Rich to Get, Ahead. ' NEW YORK, Nov. 18. Here is Andrew An-drew Carnegie's hirthday recipe for happiness. ''It is what I am able to do in the way of inducing others lo do their riiuirc thnt gives me the most pleasure in life not the mere giving of monoy, whether for libraries or some other worthy cause," Tho iron mnster's birtlulaj' is still a week oft', but that anniversary occasion 'was uppermost in tho minds of most of those present at a dinner given in his honor last night by tho General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen on tho occasion of the societies fifteenth anniversary. an-niversary. Ho wound up with the observation ob-servation that his hoart went out in sympathy for tho sons of millionaires. It was the son of poor parents, he said who realizes what n father's ami mother's love was and who had to toil nard for all lie got, who was the boy to be envied. i "I am proud ol my membership m Ws society," said Mr. Carnegie. "On looking over the great things that it has accomplished I note that it founded the firs, free library in' tho city of New York and noxv 1 am prouder than over to bo a member, for the most wholesome act of 1113- life was when I gave New York seventy-oigbt libraries in one cay. ,. ., . . "I am proud to bo eligible lo mom-berthip mom-berthip in v society of mechanics. have worked in cellars and fired engines nnd so T 'im able to lift my hands and say truthfully 'Behold these horny hands of toil.'. "And speaking of work, how I pity-the pity-the son of a milIiona"iru. ,He does not know what father and mother moans. It is the poor boy who has his father mid his mother as his guides, tho son of a scrub woman, perhaps, who roai-i.os roai-i.os and appreciates all his father has dono for litm that is the boy who will push forward. If T had my choice, I would be tho poor boy and Know what a father and mother mean and not the millionaire son who docs not know." |