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Story of Carnegie's Rise From Penury to Riches
Carnegie Rose From Penniless Boy to
One of Richest Men in the World
Life Story of Scotch Boy
Who Amassed One of
Largest Estates in the
World Reads Like Fiction
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ing Education Through
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Andrew Carnegie, the outstanding
figure of nineteenth century In?
dustrialism, will go down throug'i tho
ages as the very personification o
"Triumphant Democracy."
Overcoming almost Insuperable ob
stades by his unusual en> ;y an
sheer tenacity of purpose, Andrew
Carnegie rose from a humble mes
senger boy to wealth bevond ";?
dreams of avarice. Un rose from
obscurity to a unique position in th
world.
Yet despite the tremendous effort
! put into everything he uncjertool
Andrew Carnegie's meteoric rise wv.
1 due entirely to the opportunity offer !
to all in a land of freedom and of
free speech. This fact he emphasize :
in all his writyigs, and i:i all hi
j ; speeches. Moreover it had a prcfoun
; effect upon the course he adopted foi
1 the administration of his vast fortur'
I for the development of mankind, am'
the furtherance of science.
Fathered World Peace Plan
From the very first he looked upo'
: his fortune as a great trust bestowed
J upon him for the betterment of man
? kind. With this point in view he so'
[himself the task of administering it fot
the development of education, art and
science.
One of his most recent gifts in the
latter realm was the establishment of
Mount Wilson Observatory, built for
the special purpose of studying tho
sun. This remarkable observatory is
I just about to begin work of adding to
j the store of human knowledge.
j Andrew Carnegie was born in Dun
fermline, the parliamentary burgh of
P'ifeshire, Scotland, on November 25,
1837. His birthplace was a one-story
structure in Moodie Street, just back
of some gas works. At the time he
| came into the world the town of Dun
fcrmline was rioted for its extensive
weaving industry.
The boy's father, William Carnegie,
was one of the leading weavers of Dun
fermline and was considered well to do,
j as he owned four damask looms and
! employed several apprentices. Eeon
! omy was the watchword of the house
| hold, however, and in order to insure
the family against future reverses the
mother worked at the looms from early
morning until late at night.
Father Meets Reverses.
When Andrew was eleven years old
a dire destroyer of the family pros?
perity came in the shape of the dis?
covery of the uses of steam. The hand
weavers of Dunfermline saw large fac?
tories spring up in which this new
power was installed, and found that
1 they must abandon the occupation
| which their fathers and their fathers'
fathers had followed. Upon none of
I them did the blow fall more heavily
| than upon William Carnegie, lie was
forced to'dispose of his looms at a low
j figure. His savings rapidly vanished
I and the spectre of poverty was installed
in the home.
Andrew Carnegie in later life paid
I glowing tribute to the worth of his
j mother. It was she who, upon return
! ing tired and worn from her toil at tho
looms, yet found time to instruct
young Andrew. To her he owed what
little education he received in ?hose
days, and he never forgot his debt. In
this connection he once said: "I have
never known my mother to be wrong in
anything. So long as she lived I nevi
hesitated to obtain her opinion on any ?
question and to follow it absolutely."
At this crisis in the family fortunes
the mother exhibited wonderful cour?
age and foresight. She summoned a
I family council and brought hope to her
\ despairing husband by proposing ?mi?
gration to America. Having insuffi?
cient funds to make the journey, she
! appealed to her brother, who was a
familiar character in that part of Scot
| land. He was called "Candy Rock and
! Whitenin' Gtsordie Lauder" because he
peddled rock candy through the streets
for the children, and also sold stove.
I whitening to the housewives. The t>ed
i 1er willingly gave his sister ?10.
| In 1848 the Carnegie family, cons is t
I ing of the father and mother, Andrew
and his brother William, sot sail.
! Seven weeks after they embarked the
Carnegies sailed into New York Har?
bor, and a day or so after their arrival
left here for Allegheny City, where
i relatives had already settled.
Bobbin Hoy.
The first money Andrew Carnegie
. earned was to him the greatest prize
j of his life. Not all the millions of
! dollars he afterward amassed and be?
stowed in libraries, books, paintings
i and charity gave him so much pleasur"
I as the first $1.20 he took home for a
week's work when twelve years old.
; He lived with his parents in a little
? dwelling in Rebecca Street, which
I long since has disappeared. He had
I secured a situation as a "bobbin boy"
? in a cotton factory. Allegheny City.
before the Civil War, was oee of the
gri?atest cotton manufacturing towns in
the country. There were no. eight
hour workdays and half-holidays on
| Saturdays then. The working people
I labored from the earliest peen of dawn
i until darkness prevented the further
use of the tallow dips which flickered
? uncertainly about the machinery. Be?
ing a "bobbin boy" was hard work. Tt
1 kept young Andrew busily engaged,
' and he had no time for play or the
reading of books. He did not like his
employment, but he kept his hard work?
ing father and mother from knowing
Ins dissatisfaction.
For one year Andrew persevered
as a "bobbin boy." In the winter
mornings he ha?l to grope his way
t about the streets going to work, as
' there were no lights. The streets were
not paved and the cotton mills were
dark and dingy. This experience
brought him face to face with the
hardships of child labor and undoubt
' edly influenced him in later life to
start economic reforms ami educa?
tional enterprises. Hard as this work
was. however, young Carnegie loft it
to take up even more strenuous labor
j in the cotton factory of John Hay. a
; distant relative. His new job consisted
of firing the boiler and subsequently
of running the steam engine which con
| trolled the machinery.
Looked for Better Time?.
"I was young," he added, "and had
'? my dreams, and something within al
' ways told me that this would not last
and that I should soon be in a better
! position."
Carnegie'? next job, that of telegraph
; boy, was secured, it in said, through his
1 father's love for checker?. The father
A ??drew Carnegi e
had become a moulder in pottery, and
frequently visited a club where checker
players gathered. Young Andrew at
times accompanied him, and on one oc?
casion met there a Mr. Brooks, who was
manager of a telegraph office. The
elder Carnegie told Brooks he didn't
know what to do with his boy.
"Send him 1o my office," said the latter,
"and 1 will make a messenger of him."
Mr. Carnegie once described this new
job ?is "a transference from darkness
to light." "My only dread,'' he contin?
ued, "was that I should some day he
dismissed because 1 didn't know the
city. 1 knew that a messenger boy
eufrht to know all the firms and ad?
dresses of men who were in the habit
of receiving telegrams. However, I
made up my mind that I would learn to
repeat successively each business house
in the principal streets, and was soon
able to shut my eyes and begin at one
side of Wood Street and call every firm
in succession to the top. and then pas's
to the other side and4 caV: every firm to
the bottom."
From messenger boy be soon rose to
the post of operator. When a messen?
ger he ''sei? t? get to the office earlier
than necessary in order to study the
instrument and alphabet. As operatoi
he received what to him then was the
enormous salary of $25 a month. II?.
also did extra work in the way of fur?
nishing the telegraphic news to th"
Pittsburgh newspapers. This increaso(
his income about $5 each month.
His First Investment.
With the completion of the Penn
sylvania Railroad to Pittsburgh, Thorn
as A. Scott was sent there as divisioi
superintendent. His coming made t
decided change in the boy's opportuni
ties, for Mr. Scott, attracted by th.
lad's energy, offered him the place o
operator in his office, at a month!
salary of ?35. Mr., Scott's liking fo
young Andrew finally ied him to suy
gest that if he had $500 it might b
well for him to invest it in Adams K;i
press Company stock.
The father, meanwhile, had died, an
the ready money ill the family at th
time tliis proposal tame amounted t
considerably less than $500. Andrev
however, as was his invariable custon
told his m.-'ner what Mr. Scot; ha
said, and she decided to mortgag
tiieir little home. She took a riv?
steamer to Ohio and secured 1he nece:
I sary cash from a brother. When tl
? first dividend came, in the shape of
I check for $10, the mother and son wei
I overwhelmed with joy, Mr. Carnegie
| career as a capitalist was launched.
I A short time after this first ven tu
a Mr. Woodruff strolled into the rai
I road office one day and drew from h
' pocket a model for a. sleeping car. Tl
? value of the invention was immediate
j recognized by the young operator, wl
got together all the funds possible ai
joined Woodruff as a partner in d
veloping the new idea and putting
on the market. The cars were test
by the Pennsylvania and pronounced
success. According to Mr. Carneg
the sleeping car investment broug
him his tirst considerable return. T
company later disposed of its holdin
at a large figure, and the enterprise I
came known under its present name
the Pullman Company.
Devised New Cipher System.
When tho Civil War broke out ??
Carnegie was assigned to duty in a
around Washington, being placed
charge of the telegraphic servi.
While at this work he helped devi
the war cipher system, which was la1
adopted. In referring to this exj
rienco he said that he was the thi
man wounded in the war. ile had he
sent out to inspect the wires betwe
Eibridge Junction and Washington, 8
found that the Confederates h
pinned several of them to the grou
In attempting to release them one wire
suddenly fie v up and cul a frightful
gush in hi.; face.
"Striking Oil."
If!.-', next successful business venture
was the purchase with sever, capital-i
ists of the Storey 'arm in Oil City,
Penn., where oil had been found tho ;
year previous. This venture is re?
ferred t.> in Mr, Carnegie's "Trium?
phant Democracy" as follows: "When
I firsl visited this famous well the oil
was running into the creek, where a
few flat bottomed scow-; lay filled with
it, ready to be floated down the Alle?
gheny River upon an agreed-upoo/'day
?ach week, when the creek was flooded
by means of a temporary dam. This
was tho beginning of the natural oil
business. We purchased the farm for
' $40,000. Its value rose to $5,000,000; that
is, the shares of tho company sold in the
market upon this basis, and one year
' it paid in cash dividends $1,000,000
? rather a good return upon an invest
1 ment of $40.000."
The Iron Master.
Not satisfied with these enterprises,
Mr. Carnegie was always'on the alert
for new ventures, and soon came to
the conclusion that railroad bridges
could be improved upon as well as
railroad cars: He believed the day of
' wooden bridges had come and gone
and. that cast iron would be the ma
'- terial employed in the future. He
gathered about him a number of rail?
road men and organized the Keystone
Bridge Company, and in order to give
it full attention he retired from the
I railroad service. This was in 1867,and
, Mr. Carnegie had at last attained his
ambition he was working for himself,
, had reached a point beyond the salary
sphere. The first great bridge over
the Ohio, at Steu lenville, with a 300
foot span, was built bj this company
After a visit to Europe, '.'.here We saw
that iron rails were being discarded
and steel rails substituted, he started
the Bessemer process in his milla al
Pittsburgh. Later he became the ownei
of th" Homestead Steel Works, at
Pittsburgh, and in 18SS be owned, witT
his associates, the seven great stee
works iii er near Pittsburgh. Thes<
seven mills, known throughout tht
world a1' the Carnegie Steel Compan:
. plant, included the Homestead, tin
Edgar Thompson, the Duquesne Stee
Works and Furnaces, the Lucy Fur
naces, the Keystone Bridge Works, th
Upper Union Rolling Mills and tb.
Lo.ver Union Rolling Mills and th
Frick Coke Company. An approximat
estimate of this plant put the outpu
at 190,000 tons of steel rails an
, 140,000 tons of pig iron a month.
Testifying before the Federal Com
mission on Industrial Relations, i
February, 1915, Mr. Carnegie gave i
his own words nn interesting accoun
of the conduct of that vast business:
"We ban one rule: Come what ma;
we would never think of running ou
works with new men. Able, sober,we
behaved workmen such as ours wer
? are not. to be picked up on the street
and we wished no others. We wer
very particular in regard to drinking
11r;t offence, men were excluded thirt
day.-; second offence, sixty days; thir
?> offence, we parted company.
The Creat Homestead Strike.
"We had only one serious disastc
; with labor; but that was terrible ir
deed. I was coaching through the Sco
tish Highlands on my holiday and di
not hear of the lamentable riot i
Homestead until days after it occurre
I wired at. once that I would take t!
: first steamer home, but was requests
not to come.
"You might like to hear," he contii
ued, "the following incident connecte
with the Homestead strike:
"The Governor of Pennsylvania, I u<
; ders'.ood, wished curtain of our worke
arrested for riot and bound over for
trial. Consequently, some of these dis?
appeared, among them Iho Burgess of
Homestead. Some time afterward my
friend, Professor Van Dyke, of Rutgers
College, was ordered to California for
his health. Upon his return he told me
that he had met the ex-Burgess work?
ing ns n laborer in a Mexican mine at
Sonora. I asked him to offer McLuckie
a-iy help ho might need, and upon his
return to the West he did so.
"It was D?d White in Andy."
"Meanwhile McLuckie had got a posi?
tion with the Sonora Railway driving
wells, and was succeeding ndmirably.
The professor said: 'You don't know
whose money I was told to help you
with.' He said that he had no ?dea.
'Well, it. was Mr. Carnegie's.' Then
ceme the slow, earnest response. 'That
was damned white in Andy.'"
Mr. Carnegie said this proudly and
his smile started a general laugh.
"When I talked to the Homestead
reliera upon my return I told them
my partners had offered liberal terms
and I could not have offered more.
One roller said: 'Oh, Mr. Carnegie, it
wasn't a question of dollars! The boys
would have let you kick them and they
wouldn't let another man 3troke their
hair.' "
in 1901 the Carnegie Steel Company
was merged into the United States
Steel Corporation, and in this year Mr.
Carnegie retired from business, with a
fortune of about $250,000,000.?
The bonds of the United States Steel
Corporation which he held yielded a
?;igantic income, of which he always
??ave, liberally, and the fact that, he
aid "The man who dies rich "lies dis
graced" showed that money was not
the goal of his ambition. "That is the
irospel 1 preach," he said, referring to
these words, "that is the gospel 1 prac?
tise, and that is the gospel I intend
to practice during what remains of
my life." ,
Despite his busy life, Mr. Carnegie
found time for literary work. His first
book, "Round the World,'' was pub?
lished in 1879. In this he gave an
account of his trip across the Pacific
Ocean to Japan, China and India, and
hack home by way of the Suez Canal
.tid Europe. Several similar books fot
iowed, but bis best known work is
Triumphant Democracy; or, Fifty
i'eary' March ?of the Republic." This
look was widely rend in America and
urope, and excited much comment and
riticism. He treated of the progrey.-;
f the American Republic largely as an
dvance in material'prosperity, which
e regarded as (.he surest test of the
validity of the claims of popular gov?
ernment to superiority. Of this book
"The New York Nation" said: "There
is, perhaps, hardly a word which passes'
ihe truth. It is only when it is placed
before us in this vivid way that we
realize the stupendous development."
"Triumphant Democracy" passed
through eight editions in England, and
has been translated into French. Ital?
ian, Spanish, Dutch and Japanese.
In 1891 Mr. Carnegie contributed an
article to The Tribune entitled "How
to Get Rich," the mam thesis of which
was that native ability and industry
are quite sufficient to insure prosperity
without the akl of a college education.
It was largely copied and quoted, with
the result that large numbers of col?
lege graduates attacked and criticised
it freely, but without refuting its main
thesis. Mr. Carnegie's fourth book,
"Wealth," was reprinted in England
under the title "The Cospel of Wealth."
It? principal contention is that "sur?
plus weayn is a sacred trust, which its
possessor is bound to administer in his
lifetime for the good of the commu?
nity from which it is derived," and
that "the man who dies possessed of
millions of available wealth, which was
Mr. Carnegie9s Widow and Daughter
'? opyright by 11 term lonai b'llm . rvn
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. Roswell Miller
?free and his to administer during his
lifetime, dies disgraced."
Mr. Carnegie's attention was called
to a paragraph in a London paper which
referred to his famous declaration
j "that to die rich is to die disgraced."
and he was asked what he was going to
ido with the fortune he had amassed.
"Tell that editor," replied Mr. Car
: negie, "to watch and see. 1 hope I shell
I not justify the definition, sometimes
' deserved, of a philanthropist as a mar.
i with a great, deal of money but very
i little sense."
"My first act upon retiring from busi
I ncss," said Mr. Carnegie, in the testi
i rnon;, already quoted, in February, 1915,
i "was to give $5,000,000 to the workmen
of the Carnegie Steel Company as a
parting gift, $4,000,000 for pensions to
the men and $1,000,000 to maintain the
libraries and halls 1 had built for them.
I was greatly pleased when later the
United States Steel Corporation saw tit
to duplicate my gift, adding $4,000,000
more to the fund for pensions. I have.
? just reaj the report of this joint fund
! with great satisfaction.
I "The Hero Fund which I was privi
! leged to found has always interested
me most deeply. *
"1 could not rest until 1 had founded
hero funds with a total capital of $11,
790.000. The report of the annual
meeting, held at Pittsburgh on Jan?
uary 20, shows awards given to forty
heroes or their wives and families.
with a total of 1,027 awards since the
fund began operation. Every case is
most carefully investigated. We re
quire absolute certainty and proof
given by witnesses.
"The complete statement up to the
close of last year shows that the total
! of our foundations and gifts amounts
to $324,657,399."
Thought Library Best Gift
lie oace told why he considered a
i library the best gift for a community.
! He said: "The result of my own study
of the question, 'What is the best gift
that can be given to a community'." is
that a free library occupies the lirst
place, provided the community will ac?
cept and maintain it as a public in?
stitution, as mucii a part of the city
4s "The Laird of 'Skiho, ^
Carnegie Was True Scot
Surrounded Hiniseif With Highlanders in Ancient
Dress?Converted Ancient Castle Into a Mod
ern Mansion With Elevators and Electricity
By Ishbel M. Ross I
Possibly in no phase of his existence j
was more of the human side of Andrew
Carnegie revealed than during the
months he spent each year at Skibo
Castle. Fifth Avenue knew him as one
of its greatest millionaire's, but in
Scotland he was simply the "ittle lair
of Skibo," plain son of the soil, who
had the courage and the grit to achieve
phenomenal success.
He was born in Lowland Scotland,
but when he returned years afterward
to choose a home from the many beau?
tiful estates of his native country, he
travelled to the extreme Northern
Highlands and settled on a castle pict?
uresquely situated in Sutherlandshire.
Almost the first thing he did was to
have two marble marbles made'?one,
of the tiny house of hi? birth; the
other, of his newly acquired castle.
To-day they rest side by side in the
hall of Skibo. and it was the laird's
pride to point to them as the story of
his life, the marble evidence of the
long road he had travelled.
Modernized Skibo Castle
Skibo lias been one of the show
places of Scotland since Mr. Carnegie
took it ?ver several years ago and con?
verted it into an up-to-date residence
that contrasts oddly with fine olc
Dunrobin Castle, nearby, belonging tc
the Duke of Sutherland.
Dunrobin is the epitome of all thai
is ancient and historic. But Skibc
brings a touch of New York into th'
quiet by-ways of the ighlands, wit!
its elevators, its great furnaces and it:
electricity. It. was the pride of ill
owner and outrivals in magnificenc?
his Fifth Avenue home. For orn
tiling, it has an incomparable situatioi
on a cliff overlooking the Dornocl
Firth. It is turreted like an old feuda
castle and has a window for every da;
in the year. The gardens are far
famed, and the model dairy and Turk
ish baths are other notable features o
the residence.
At Skibo Mr. Carnegie accentuate?
One of Many Monuments to Mr. Carne gie's Generosity
Home of the Peace Congress at The Hague, for which the philanthropist gave ?1,500,000.
his Scotch characteristics, although he j
never forgot that it was to America
he owed his fortune. On the Fourth
of July each year it was his custom to
give a fete, and the Stars and Stripes
invariably flew side by side with the
Union Jack.
He Wore Tartan Clothes
He always wore tartan clothes on
the other side of the Atlantic. In fact,
he had a special tartan woven for him,
to which he gave his own name. It
became one of the industries of a
"neighboring village.
He had magnificent shooting and
fishing on his estate, but. while he was
fond of tiie rod and would spend a few
days pursuing salmon and trout, noth?
ing would induce him to handle a gun.
His guests might bag all the pheasants
| they wanted, but he shuddered at the
thought of killing warm-blooded ani
i mais. This was in keeping with his
| whole-hearted aversion to slaughter of
any kind. He would s#y to his visitors,
"If you must kill them, kill them; but
j don't let me know anything about it."
He reviewed many quaint old Cus?
toms at Skibo, largely for the benefit
1 of his American visitors. It was hi:
habit to have a piper march up am
! down the hall playing the bagpipes be
fore dinner started. Kilts were sect
! more frequently around Skibo thai
| they were anywhere else in Scotland
j for the laird liked to hove iiis retinui
; look like Highland chieftains. It wa
one of his whims.
Loved Picturesque Scotland
lie was not particularly interests
in the native life save where it wa
picturesque, and then he wanted t
make the most or ?t. Every villag
within miles of his castle, no matte
how mall the population, beasts a Car
jiegie library. His name is so deep!
inscribed in stone in Scotland that i
will take centuries to erase it.
His major passion was books. Hi
\ favorite guest at Skibo was always
writer; his favorite after dinner tal
was books. He was more pleased t
have Kipling visit sim than to hav
; crowned heads or American millior
. aires. And he had al lof them in hi
time. Years ago, before he had m(
tors running between the castle an
! the nearest railway station, ten mil<
away, stage coaches carried his gui u
They were picturesque affairs, lookir
for all the v rid ; if they had trui
died put of th< p ige - of "Pic kwic
i' ipei >." Ciii chnn ;.. dressed in re
drove giddily tsrough the villaf
streets in their four-in-hands, blov
ing horns to make way for Gladston
Pf.derewski, Sir Edward Grey, Kiplii
and others.
Fond of His Daughter
But greater than his passi >n f<
books and pi? t ure ?qui % s rvani
his love for only d lughter. llw
of her life was pas led at Skil
: :,he was known to every o in i
vicinity as an extremely intelligei
; frolicsome youngster. Their life w
simple and wholesome. Margaret a
her father roamed around arm in a;
in tie early days, when she was qu
a little person. But as she approac!
her teen- she shot up into a tall, Ian
girl, who could look down on the lit*
uird. She. too wore Highland dress.
Mr. Carnegie and his wife nev
failed to go to Skibo each year un
| the war broke out, and the Highla
; parish will sec no more of its lit
I laird.
property as it? public s'hools. and, in?
deed, v.rt adjunct to these. When I was
a boy in Pittsburgh, Colonel
of Allegheny, a man 1 can neve
tion without feelings of d
gra' itt.de, opei ed Im ; little
four hundred books to bo
Saturday afterno h .vas in at
anee him
books. No on? bul he ?
can know the inl
which Saturday was awa -
new book might be had. ' ?va
revelling in these trei -uro-; |
solved, if ever wealth ci me 1
it should be us? d to ?
libraries, that other poor boys : -'' '
recei te opporl unit ie -
for which we were indebted ? I
noble ma ' ."
Third in his list came
or extension of medica
pits I -i and other euro: pri
to do with the all? ia1 i of human
suffering, and which ' < re more es
pecially concerned with t! prev
rather than the cure of hun
His fourth idea was to ?
lie parks, but he did
little along this Iin? ime the
op? rig of public halls a . I
?dying of them with organs. Thi
Carnegie Began Life
At $1.20 Weekly Wage
NDREW CARNEGIE was born at
Dumfermline, Scotland, N .,??
25, 1835.
At the age of eleven he came *^
this country with his paren*- on $50
i borrowed from an uncle, Gei rge
Lander.
The family se'tied at Alleg! eny
City, Penn., in 1848, where Andrew
went to work as bobbin boy at $1
a week.
His next job was telegraph oper?
ator at $25 a mont h.
In the Civil War he worked in the
telegraph branch of the sen, and
devised a cipher system for the Ui ion
forces.
Soon after the war he aided T. T.
Woodruff in the development of the
first sleeping car and realized ?? '. 1,1 i I
when the Pullman Company bought
the rights.
Mad- his first $1,000,000 in oil
lands which he bought with borrowed
capita!.
In 1SG7 formed the Keystone Bridge
Company, which built the first iron
bridge in the country over the Ohio
River.
Brought the Bessemer steel proc?s 9
to this country, and became owner of
the Homestead Mills in Pittsburgh.
In 1S8S he and his associates owned
the seven great steel mills in and
around Pitts burgh.
In 1901 the Carnegie Steel Com?
pany was merged into the United
States Steel Corporation and Mr. Car
negie retired from business with
$250,000,000.
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ez J^ cant fact about our clothing is
its general and complete ex?
cellence.
If you appraise on a fabric basis,
you are grat * all
wool.
If you lock to the tailorii r. you
find it splendidly iv,>ne. And
the style, of course, is th r
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Satisfactory We make thi . ? ? ad
,iea ditionally attractive by a price
range that delivers true value.
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