The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-27
SUNDAY, JANUARY s7, 1907.
WHY MOTT
The Raleigh Evening Times says:

In the course of an after dinner talk in Philadelphia the other evening Colonel A K. Mcclure casually mem ki0ned the fact that on one occasion Mir. Andrew Carnegiee remarked that he would willingly give two hundred more of life. It is going the rounds An expert reminds us that this Is fifty thousand dollars day. The state ment of Mir. Carnegie is somewhat surprising inasmuch as most of us had supposed all along that he loved his wealth better than he loved his life He is growing old; sooner or later that other world. there to account for his stewardship. All that he pos- sesses now will be left behind. Pos to express himself. for he knows that an end comes some time.
 Tn more than one of our exchanges we have seen expressions of surprise that MT. Carnegie should be so anxious to prolong his life, but there is noth- ing strange about it. Mr. Carnegie is now in his seventieth year. He has lived an active, strenuous life and has accumulated vast wealth. Now that his days of activity are over, and when he has an opportunity to live
 
 with plenty of everything to make him content he realizes that he has nearly reached the Psalmists limit of human life. and the mentally and physically active life he has led warns him that in all human probability he must soon look his last on earth. Why should we be surprised to hear that he is willing to give freely of his mill lions for another ten years of health ful living? In his pensively beautiful 's1iegy in a Country Churchyard" the poet Gray wrote:
 For who. to dumb forgetfulness
 This pleasing. anxious being eer re-
 signed,
 Left the warm precincts of the cheer
 full day
 Nor east one longing lingering look
 hind?
 A good man may have no doubt or dread of the future but may have no desire to acauaint himself with what comes after death. Twenty-Five cen furies ago tine old Athenian poet, Euri- pedes, said: "Old mems prayers for death are lying prayers in which they abuse old age and long extent of life But when death draws near not one is willing to die and age no longer is a burden to them" He wrote as pagan and perhaps as a man who enjoyed life and saw nothing good be- yond the grave, but 1t must be ad4 naitted that he wrote as one having a knowledge of human nature. There are those who are really tired of liv- ing and who take no further interest in the affairs of earth. To them death is looked on as a welcome relief and they go to 1t as one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams" TO those, however. who have no reason to wish for a change death is not wel- come or desired.
 There is really nothing strange i: 1t If Andrew Carnegie is willing to pay at the rate of fifty thousand dol lars & day for another ten years of life. He is rich beyond all possible danger of want or poverty. His many millions of dollars are really adding nothing to his physical enjoyment that modern wealth would not afford him and if he would be willing to pay some thing more than two thousand dollars an hour for the privilege of living h' can afford 1t and have plenty left fo' funeral expenses. Let And ew make the bargain, if he can.