El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-26

self-only thirty-nine,-and he under
stands them. He is very democratic
"a thorough good fellow when bust
ness is out of the way. He is a clean
man. He uses neither tobacco nor
liquors to any extent. In fact. ne
doesn't have time. That is another of
his secrets-that he has time only for
the necessary things.
AS to Carnegie. the story is long and
full of interest. Only an inkling of
what is there can be gained from any
condensed reproduction, and yet we
will essay it. for the benefit of those
to whom the magazine itself may no
be accessible.
Here is what he says himself:
Take away all our factories. our
trade: our avenues Of transportation:
our money; leave me n organization.
and in four years I shall have reestab-
l;shed myself"
There is something thrillingly dramat-
ic about that. 1t voices the large poise
and confidence of that type of genius
which recognizes the limitations of any
one human being, and consequently
builds with men as the machinist
builds with iron-here a cog. a COVER
nor. a fy-wheel-until he has solved
the secret of perpetual motion, for he
has brought into being a sel~f-directing
self-supporting. self-renewing organi-
attracting to itself other hui
atoms. and merely gaining force
and irresistible impetus a the years
roll on.
He shows the same admirable acu-
men. common sense, and fairness in
dealing with his great body Of employ
es. They too have beer partners in the
business. for in 1890 he introduced a
sliding scale of payment by which a
minimum was guaranteed and every
worker. no matter how humble his ca
pacity. shared in the profits Of pros
porous times which he helped to pro-
duce.
He has never been contented to sink
entirely in these tremendous
enterprises which would seem to de-
mand any mans last ounce of energy
and concentration. Long before he be-
a rich man he showed his adj
balance in this respect. We
seen that he was a hard worker.
but he never ground his mind and
spirit to the exclusion Of sport and
pleasure.
He is not a "phi1anthropist" in the
accepted sense. for he holds that "of
every thousand dollars indiscriminate-
" given. min hundred and fifty had
have been thrown into the sea-"
and as he says in wealth and its
There is no use whatever. gentle
men. trying to help people who do not
help themselves. You cannot push any
up a ladder unless he be willing
to climb a little himself. When o
stop boosting. he falls, to his injury
So in the matter Of giving libraries
h. follows a very definite rule. He
never makes any stipulations that the
library shall have a particular charac-
ter: all he insists on is that when he
has founded It. It shall be supported
by the people and shall be managed for
the benefit of the whole community.
OF course, in the large daily mail
already referred to. library letters are
most numerous. and il people realized
how many impracticable. indirect. and
letters on this subject were re
they would see the importance
of telling in a clear and businesslike
what is needed and why h gift
should be bestowed. Mr.. Carnegie is
good a business man simply to pre-
sent money en- masse.
He has a profound admiration for the
men who really do things. with an en-
phasis on the do" which. as is his
habit. he often illustrates by a good
story. An old friend Of his in Pitts
burg. who kept his fast trotters and
neld the record. was beaten In a brush
by a young man. The old gentleman
disappeared for some time. He had
gone to Kentucky to get a horse that
r~eestab1ish his supremacy. He
was being shown over a stud, and had
been past a long string OF hors-
es with their records on b stall, and
the victories they had won. Then he
was taken through a long line of young
horses with their pedigrees. from
which the dealer was proving what
they were going to do when they got
the track. The old gentleman, WHIP
ing his forehead-for 1t was a hot day.
turned to the dealer and
said:
Look here, stranger,-you've shown
have beens.' and you've let me see
your going to-be's' but what I am here
is an 'iser.'"
His sympathy is always with any
man. particularly a young man. who is
away honestly to make his
success.
One secret OF his success is his pro-
found confidence in the people whom
he has gathered about him. He does
things which a stranger would pro-
rounce unbusinesslike and careless;
but hat stranger would be struck, up
investigation, by the fact hat new
once had this habit gotten him into
He acts on the principle that
to trust a man in itself goes a long way
making him worthy of trust
and his judgment of men is so keen
that he trusts the right man..
II is always interesting. sometimes