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 104 FAMOUS LIVING AMERICANS endowments are: Carnegie Institution, Washington, D. C, $22,000,000; Carnegie Institution, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, $10,000,000; Scotch universities, $10,000,000; Carnegie Dun- fermline Trust, Scotland, $2,500,000; College Professors' Pen- sion Fund in United States, Canada and Newfoundland, $15,- 000,000 ; Peace Temple at the Hague, $1,750,000 ; Pan-Ameri- can Union (buildings and funds), $850,000; for benefit of Em- ployes of Carnegie Steel Co., $5,000,000; Allied Engineers' Society, $1,500,000. In addition he has given over $5,000,000 to endow libraries, etc., etc. The list is too long to exhaust; of libraries alone there are some two thousand. It is safe to say that behind all of Mr. Carnegie 's gifts there is a definite purpose. In his libraries he invites the thought- ful, more particularly the young, to **read, learn, and in- wardly digest*' the best that has been written; though wheth- er the average frequenter of public libraries does that has been cynically questioned. In his endowments of college pro- fessors, an insufficiently paid calling, he releases many a great and generous soul from financial bondage — thus setting it free to pursue the higher course, the pioneering work that leads onward and upward ; the goal of which no man knows, but which is assuredly there and well worth striving for. ffis endowments of the Carnegie Institution and of the Scotch universities belong to the same order. His gifts to Dunferm- line, where he was bom ; to Pittsburgh, where he grew up to great things; to the Allied Engineers' Societies, intimately associated with the industry in which he made his fortune — these are gifts personal, and of the heart. About his * * Hero Fund" opinions differ. Some hold that the true reward of heroism is * * the iron cross, not the golden guerdon. ' ' Be that as it may, all admit the motive — idealism. Andrew Carnegie is, and has always been, a good deal of an idealist, though he would doubtless hotly deny the statement, as he has already denied that he is a philanthropist. Well, anyhow, he is a * ' guid laddie. ' ' To that we know he will agree, for **our Andie" — and he is ours and the world's — is very human. He does not believe that any man should hide his light under a bushel. And he is right. If there were no bea-