A MILLIONAIRE'S LIFE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8778, 8 June 1907, Page 6

A MILLIONAIRE'S LIFE.

Little Happiness in Wealth

Mr Andrew Carnegie, who has presented Pittsburg with the iinesf technical institute in the United States, related at a recent dinner of the United States Military Telegraph Corps how lie began the battle of life. The multi-millionaire was first employed as a telegraph messenger in Pittsburg;, and ow of the most memorable events in his life was when his wages were raised from ,£•,' ."is to £•> J -Is. He told how lie wo;it home on Saturday night and gave his mother the usual £'l r >s, and then, later on, ho surprised her by giving her Us more. "Talk about millionaires! O-ho!" cried Mr Carnegie to his listeners. "I Avas born in poverty," continued Mr Carnegie, •"and I would not exchange places with the richest millionaire's son that ever lived. What does he know about father or mother.-. They art" merely names. ■'But my mother was nurse, seamstress, cook, laundress, teacher, angel and saint and no servants between. ""Men say that poverty is a dreadful life, and others say that riches corrupt a man's life. But they have a one-sided view. Now I have lived on both sides, and I know that then 1 is little in wealth that can add to happiness. •'I think that wealth decreases rather than increases happiness—at least, wealth beyond a moderate competence. Ido not know many millionaires who laugh.