The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-06-13
T Mr.. Dooley's Letter
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
On Mr.. Carnegie's GIFT.

On Mr. Carnegio's GILT.
Tin Millyon dollars to make tn
Scotch a larned people," said Mr.. Doc
ley.
who, done that?" asked Mr.. Hen
messy.
Andrew Carnaygie, says Mr.. Doo-
ley. He reaches down into his pocket
where he keeps tn change an pulls up
TIN millyon bawbies an says he:
Boys, take ye'er fill Nv larnin' an
charge it to me- he says. 'Divvle hang
tn expinse.' he says. TIL more tn
| merryer,' he says. "A short life an a
happy wan, he says. 'Larn anything
| ence,' he says, an put 1t all down to
| me- he says.
That's tn way we do it, Andrew an
me. Whin other men are chasin' bit
| ~ loose money to tn corner Nv a little
| leather purse to make good on chair
| or foldin' bed iv classical larnin, we
ordher tn whole furnt.itFe uthore an
| iacation in Scotland has been on tn re-
! tail. TIL Scotch have been goin' In
with bag of oatmeal an exchangin'
1t FIR enough larnin' to last over tn
night. It's been hand TO mouth with
thin FIR years. Andrew an me pro-
rose FIR to buy idjacation FIR thin in TIL
bulk Professor, wrap up tin millyon
| >Aoiiehi . WI III ~ lJlOU& III dA SlA0 IL "
| tn Scotch.
'Hinnissy, I don't know what's goin
to happen when us American millyon-
| aires begins to unbelt. 1t used to be
that we niver knew whin we had
! enough. No matter how much I made
l was hanted be tn fear that I'd wake
up in tn mornin' an find 1t all gone
an me with q pair Nv overalls on run
| min up laddher with box iv mortar
on me neck. Whin We run in an paid
me tn three millyon dollars We owned
l was afraid to put it in a dhrawer Fl
fear We might come back afther l was
| gone an didn't want to carry it In
Inc pocket FIR fear I'd lose it an If ]
stuck 1t In bank an see tn prisidint
i1d1n. In a cab, chill run up me back
en- l dhreamed that night iv fsJsilt
with a dinner pail undher me arm
pikin' off to tn rollin mills just be-
lure tn sun come up. But we get used
10 money just as We get used to power
ty, Hinnissy though niver as much
used to it, firm tn lack Nv companions
an there come q time whin 1 didn't
know what to do with it. cudden't
give 1t back to tn men got it firm
They wudden't take it. Nanny iv
thin ARE dead. Besides tits again
HE system. I've got into tn habit iv
maxim it, but not into tn habit Nv
| spendin 1t. I can't buy things with II
FIR there's nawthin' I've learned how tc
buy that won't make money FIR me- ]
can't give 1t to tn poor because II
they had 1t they wudden't be poor amy
longer. Besides no wan ought to be
| poor in this land iv opporchunity AS
tn pote says, Opportunity knocks
at 1vry mans dure wanst. On some
mems dures 1t hammers till it breaks
down tn dure an thin 1t goes in an
| wakes him up If he's asleep an liver
/ aftherward 1t wurruks FIR him as a
| night Waterman. On other mems dures
\ 1t knocks and runs away an on tn
! dures Nv, some men it knocks an whir
they come out it hits them over TIL
| head with an axe But ivryman has ar
opportunity. I can't do anything f.,
thin. TIL poor mustn't be pauperized
But I must do something to git | i,
tn accommodations Nv roly holy that's
grajally crushin' out me young life, sc
I buys a university to play with"
The day whin we millyonaires
bought yachts an brown stone house:
with mansard roofs onto thin an were
Htnnissy. Twill not be long before
none will be SO poor as not to own 6
private yacht an thu next time 6
Coxey army starts FIR Wash'nton, it'll
! ride in a SPECIAL yistibule thrain
| What was luxuries few years ago is
| mere necessities now. Pierpont Nor.
gan calls in wan Nv his office boys, tn
! prisidint is a naytional bank an says
he, James, he says, take some change
out Nv TIL damper an r-run out an
| by Europe FIR me- he says. I intineC
to re-organize it an put it on a payin
basis he says. Call up tn Gear an tn
Pope an tn sultan an tn Impror VIII.
| lum an tell thin we won't need theil
sarvices afther mex week. he says
Give thin years salary in advance
/ An James, he says, we betther pu
that r-red headed book-keeper near tn
| dure in charge Nv tn continent. He
doesn't seem to be dom much he says
Ye see, Hinnissy, tn game has got 81
much bigger since we first made ou1
money that If Jay Gould was to come
| back to earth with some Nv tn play:
we used to wondher about, he'd thinl
he was an old clothes man. So I'll:
nawthin' strange with Jawn D. or An
dhrew or meslf buys string Nv univer
sites an puts in tin millyons to teach
tn young idee how to loot. Before Ions
4 Veil be racin' thin. don't know bu
what tits tn finest kind Nv sport tn
wurruld has liver heerd about.
Father Kelly don't think as much "
i 1t as I do. He was in here las nigh
I an says he: 'Ye can't buy idjaca tor
l FIR people, he says. II We cud, tn on!
man in tn Wurruld tnat Knew amy
thing wud be Jawn D. Rockefeller, h
says. Idjacation,' he says. is some
thing that man has to fight f'r an
pull out Nv it's hole be tn hair Nv IT.
1 head he says. That's tn reason I'll
SO precious he says, 'They'se SO littl'
Nv it an it's so hard to get, he says
i .They'se amy quantity Nv CAB tina
looks like it, but 1T amt tn rale thing,
he says TIL wurruld is full ~ peopl'
wearin' false joolry iv that kind HI
4 says, but afther they've had 1t f'r {
long time, it TURNS green an blue an
some day whin they thry to get some
thing on it, tn pawnbroker throw.
thin out. No, sir, idjacation means
throubla an wurruk an worry an An
drew Carnaygie himself is tn on'y war
know that's been able to pick 1t UP Ii
tn brief INTERVALS between wan dol
lar an another he says. TIL smart
est man in my day at tn colledge i,
tn Sacred Heart was la-ad who uset