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Show PITY FOR AndrewCarnegie'sSym-palhy AndrewCarnegie'sSym-palhy Goes Out to Sons of Millionaires New York, Nov. IS Here 1 Andrew Carnegie's birthJay recipe for happiness: hap-piness: "It Is what I am able to do in the wa of Inducing others io do their s-hure that gives me the most pleasure pleas-ure In life not the merj giving of money, whether for libraries or some other worthy cause." The Iron Master's birthday Is still a week off, but toat anniversary occasion oc-casion was uppermost in the minds of Most of those present at a dinner given giv-en In his honor last by the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen Ion the occasion of the society's fifteenth fif-teenth anniversary. He wound up with the observation that his heart went out In sjmputby for the ons of the millionaires It was the son of 1 c-or parents, he said, vho realizes vJiai a father's and mother's love was i.n.' who had to toll hard for all he tct, who was the boy to be envied. 'I am proud of my membership in this society," said Mr. Carnegie. "On : locking over the great th'.ngs that It b:is accomplished. I note th;it it found- 1 cd the first free library In the city i of New York and now 1 mn prouder J than ever to be a nieniV-r. for tho j ii i03t wholesome act of inv life was ' when I gave New York twenry-elght . libraries In one day j "I am proud to be eligible to mem ' lershlp In a society of mechanics. I have worked In cellars and fired engines en-gines and so I am able to lilt my hands anj say truthfully Heboid these i horny hands of toil.' J "And speaking of work, how I pity the bou of a millionaire. He does not , l:now w hat father and mot her means. ! It Is the pocr boy who has his father i ud his mother as his guides The i Pen of a scrub woman. perhaps, realises real-ises and appreciates all his mother : 1 hs don? for him that is the loy who v 111 push forward. If 1 had my choice. I would ho the p.irr boy anil j know what a fa: her and mother mean iii'd not tho millionaires" son who I does not know ." |