Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-19

diversion BY telling the story of the Ameri-
can wit who was afflicted with a stammer.
After jay Gould and Hudson had COM
pleted one of their great locomotion schemes
their portraits were displayed in opposite
panels of the great hall Of the company in
celebration of their triumph. When these
were shown to the stammerer, and be was
asked if he had anything to suggest, he re-
piled: Eyes, p-p-put p-p-portrait OF our
b-b-blessed Lord b-between these two gen.
tlemen."
HAS A FEW HOBBIES.
Mr.. Carnegie has also his pet topics. He
is great on the subject of the American
tariff, subject which he knows very thor
oughly, much better, indeed, than the En-
glish free traders who tried to controvert his
protectionist views. When, by any chance,
be was turned onto the tariff question, there
was no stopping him. On the international
copyright question he was quite as ire
preSsible, and he looks forward confidently
10 the removal OF the center of the English
publishing trade to the other side of the
Atlantic.
Mr.. Carnegie does not himself shoot, but
he provides abundant shooting for his
guests, together with keepers, gillies, dogs
and ponies, and he thoroughly enjoys their
success. Nothing in this line has pleased
him so much as to find that his young
brother-in-law is turning out to be 4 first
rate shot. The only sport which he affects
is angling. He finds great enjoyment in
spending a day on Highland loch, or be-
side a Highland brook; but he does not
prosecute the sport with much kecnness.
The truth is that he Is much too active
mindedsto be able to give himself up to so
patient and contemplative an occuoation as
the gentle art'' of old Isaac. Even in the
wilds of Badenoch he cannot escape from
the demands of his numerous correspond
ents, DOT to mention other work.
DOES LOTS OF WORK.
While was at Cluny he was engaged in
the preparation of the lecture which he has
since delivered in Dundee on Common
Misconceptions Regarding Republicanism.
While his guests were enjoying themselves
on the moors, he spent several Eours every
day in his study, debating to his secretary,
who is at once a stenographer and a tvpe-
writer. In this way he overtakes a vast
amount o work, almost as much as If he
were a prime minister or a secretary of
state on a holiday.
The claims on his time and his purse sur
pass belief. The penalties attaching TO the
character of a millionaire, and especially of
a philanthropic millionaire. are great Not
q post passes without bringing applications
for hell from the most unexpected quarters
TO the most deserving cases. The man who
has given S250,00 for the free library in
Edinburgh and $50, 600 or the free library in
AYR, and who, as mere incident in coach
ing tour volunteered to be good for half of
the debt on the free library in Inverness,
matter OF a check for 81, 500, has no right to
be surprised if he is esteemed Croesus.
But he is by no means a rash or an unrea-
soning benefactor. He one evening pre-
sided, by request, at a concert at kingussie,
organized for the purpose of clearing off
debt on a new public hall there The whole
castle party drove to the concert in the his
toric mail coach, drawn by four gray horses,
with horns blowing and every accessory to
rustic state. The hall was crowded. The
concert was excellent. Mr.. Carnegie made
an admirable chairman and everything wen.
of with eciat.
METHOD IN HIS MADNESS.
At the close of the meeting the speakers,
one after another, made the most pointed
and, as it appeared, the most irresistible ap-
peals to the chairman to wipe out the small
debt remaining-a paltrY 81 900. To every
ones surprise, and the evident disappoinI-
ment OF Kingussie, he did not respond to
the next morning now he could be so callous,
ne said that he had given his subscription to
the Hall bSilding fund two years before and
he did lot think that the extinction of a
paltry debt was proper object for his beuefi-
cence. 1t nust be said at the same time
that Mr.. Carnegie is esteemed very highly in !
the nelghborhood for his kindness to the |
people; and his resolution on this occasion
showed only that there is method in his
charity. 1t would be difficult to forget the
drive home about midnight on the top of the
mail coach, with song and story and chorus,
or the pleasant supper party afterward,
crowned, on this occasion only, with whisky
punch.
Mr.. Carnegie is very proud of the fete he !
held at Cluny on the Fourth of July to cell |
ebrate Independence Day. They had 400 |
persons sitting around tables at tea at one |
time. The whole Strath was there-young
and old, Of all grades; and the proceedings
were most enthusiastic, the shrewd High |
landers being by no means averse to repub-
lican doctrines, when presented to them in a |
bospltable and palatable form.
THE DUNDEE ADDRESS.
His Dundee address. already referred to,
has exposed Mr.. Carnegie to a greal deal of |
criticism and abuse. His comparisons of |
the cost of government in this country and |
in the United States showed large balance |
in favor OF the republic. The passage that |
gave most otfense was that in which be ex- |
pressed the hope that Queen Victoria might |
continue to reign till the British democracy |
had made up their minds to have voice in |
the appointment of her successor. The Brit |
ish ImperiIlists regard the utterances as
rank treason, and denounce him accordingly |
Ii unmeasureG terms.
But Mr.. Carnegie treated their TRADES |
with characteristic good humcr, and re- |
turned toh his Highland fastness rather proud |
o. the storm of Vituperation he provoked. /
No one would be SURPASSED to learn that on |
his return to Cluny his pipers welcomed |
him with the stirring strains OF Bonnie |
Dundee" w. SCOTT DALGLEIsB,
Edinburgh Correspondent of the London
Times.