The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-21
WEALTH AND WORTH.

Few mortals no matter what their vocation have
during their lifetime acquired fame to greater degree
than Andrew Carnegie. To begin with expert in
the art of money-makng his name has been reechoed
from the four corners of the globe Now, the dis
tributer for the endowment educational other
institutions of probably the greatest individual fortune
ever acquired by human being he Is furnishing food
for comment throughout the world.
Yet great is this thrifty Seotchmans faculty for
making the most of opportunity 1t may be doubted
whether his would have become familiar in
every cline had not money in well nigh nconceivable
quantities to him the result of his in
the management of prudently developed and shrewdly
promoted manufacturing enterprises. True, he has
done wonderful things with his money, the limit of his
achievements in this respect not having yet been
reached but possession in the first place was the
foundation of his and essential in the exercise
of that generosity which is debating its distribution in
aid of public libraries and to open the unvers
ties to the lean of purse. He has become celebrated
more because of his extraordinary fortune than for any
particular trait of character distinguishing him from
the common herd. Mark the difference in the
spcuousness he has attained the renown achieved
by Berhelo that French veteran of intellectual prod
gies who in his work combines the insight industry
ana daring of Edison and the intuitive pro
of Huxley. King of chemistry, sagacous
statesman and charming literary specialist that he is
Bertheot attracts but limited attention beyond the
boundaries of his own country. During fifty of the
seventy five years of his life he has either discovered
pointed out the secret of vital Interpretation
the laws of nature whose application has been bene
cence to the human race. He could have been mil
honaire hundred times had he followed the
ample of other inventors and demanded patent on
1.-THE of the he has given his country
men
From of his discoveries he could have amassed
The millions of Carnegie, but instead he handed his
work to his country. Truth as Renan once wrote
Of him. is his ideal OF riches and he has disdaned pre-
emptjng his tax humanity and turned to the
worldly the gathering OF wealth 1t would be long
tale the infinite number of things that Der
thclo skill and insight discovered to the of indus
tries, from dyes rvalng the ancient Tyran coors to
medicines which have revolutionized the pharma-
copnea yet because he chose to give the the
Gt Of his researches without exacting portion of its
possessions in return he fingers in comparative Oblivion
In contrast with the gatherer in of shekes who
has succeeded beyond the most eXtravagant of expeca
tons in the accumulation of the medium of exchange.
But there is unquestionaby more satisfaction in
life for Bertheot in his present condition than he could
extract of it he the possessor of wealth rival
ing that of Carnegie there is occasion to greve
the limited of his fame still he is prominent
an example of the discrimination OF which men are
guilty in distinguishing between wealth and worth
be overlooked.