The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-04

and sang a typical Scottish song. He was
just in the midst of it and the audience
was giving MIN close attention. when the
door leading into the room opened and
10 ana behOld-Who should the unexpect-
himself 1t is said that Mr. Carnegie en-
Joyed both the song and the singers eV-
lSgtAs Col'A. lsA1u, anu ~ + llfthef salo thdt
something of Schwab was led to inquire
about his commercial abilities, with the re-
SUIT that ne was given wider and wider
Mr.. schwab particularly delights in his
love for music when at his summer home
in Loretto. He plays on the piano many
times a day, and those of his former play
mates now remaining in the town of their
boyhood believe that there is no pianist
alive who can equal Charlie" Schwab in
playing ''ragtime."
Mr.. Carnegie likes to talk to tail men.
Plttsburg friends say that they have known
him to deliberately scrape an acquaintance
with representatives of the six-foot-and-
over class for no other reason IN the world
than to ask them how they managed to
grow tall Mr.. Carnegie has never got
over his boyhod ambition to be a big man,
physically. He once said to a friend apro-
pos of this appointment:
People tell me that 1 am a big man
But I'm not as big as I'd ike to be. Look
at me-"
Mr.. and Mrs. George ]. Gould, coming
out from Georgian court on cold winters
day to distribute charity from a big and
buging hamper to needy residents Of
Lakewood and whereabouts, is a far from
Mr.. and Mrs. Gould believe in personal
iy relieving any suffering that may be
within the shadow of their magnificent
country seat in the pines, and as a result
any person in Lakewood who gets into diff
ficulty is now. accustomed to look for aid
from the Goulds.
Residents of Lakewood say that this
winter the Goulds have supplied many
tons of fuel to poor families, Mr.. Gould
/ frequently experimenting the delivery Of
( the coal
''If there is a single case of unrelieved
restitution In this township, said a prom
lnent citizen Of the resort recently. lit is
i because the Goulds have not heard Of it.
/ And if any one viii be good enough to tell
Thorn Of il. in less than an hours time
Well see them making for the place with
@Mr. Gould has told me that nothing
gives him so much pleasure as to help q
deserving neighbor, and he is so modest
and unOStentiOus and diplomatic about It
( that the person helped never feels as If
/ he were a dependent.
Thomas Bracket Reed never read thu
4 things printed about him with very much
attention He was intensely interested,
his schemes. He used to preserve carica-
lures of himself and the first in which he
+ figured had n place Of honor in his libra
ry framed, much to the distress of Mrs
Reed who could not bear to at upon It.
1t was printed early in the seventies
Reeds queerest fad was a grOteSque
/ statuette of an elephant about six inches
/ high. Whenever he was puzzled or when
he had the blues-and even he had them
sOmetimes-it was his wont to stand and
I contemplate his little elephant in all its
ugly grotesque humorousness, and thus he
wrought out many a problem, and more
/ than once wOOed back the sunshine that
had temporarily disappeared
The late c. i. Magee. the mult-million-
aire of Pittsburg, would never live in any
( other than frame house.
A frame house was good enough for me
to be born in" he always told his friends
It modern residence. and in a frame house
I shall live until Washington Star