Shaw, Thomas (Lord Shaw), of Dunfermline, 269, 288, 289. Sherman, Gen. W.T., 107. Shiras, George, Jr., appointed to the Supreme Court, 353. Siemens gas furnace, 136. Singer, George, 225. Skibo Castle, Scotland, 217, 272, 326. Sleeping-car, invention of, 87; on the Union Pacific Railway, 158-61. Sliding scale of wages, solution of the capital and labor problem, 246, 247, 252. Sloane, Mr. and Mrs., 29. Smith, J.B., friend of John Bright, 11, 12. Smith, Perry, anecdote of, 124. Snobs, English, 301. Spanish War, the, 361-65. Speculation, 151, 153. Spencer, Herbert, Mr. Carnegie's relations with, 333-37; a good laugher, 333, 334; opposed to militarism, 335; banquet to, at Delmonico's, 336; very conscientious, 337, 338; his philosophy, 339; on the gift of Carnegie Institute, 348, 349. Spens, Sir Patrick, ballad of, 7, 367. Spiegel, manufacture of, 220. Stanley, Dean A.P., on Burns's theology, 271. Stanton, Edwin M., 41, 275. Stanwood, Edward, _James G. Blaine_ quoted, 345 _n._ Steel, the age of, 181-97; King, 224, 225. Steel Workers' Pension Fund, 281. Steubenville, bridge at, over the Ohio River, 116, 117. Stewart, D.A., freight agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 94, 95; joins Mr. Carnegie in manufacture of steel rails, 186. Stewart, Rebecca, niece of Thomas A. Scott, 90. Stokes, Major, chief counsel of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 81-83, 86. Storey, Samuel, M.P., 330. Storey farm, oil wells on, 138, 139 _n._ Straus, Isidor, 196. Straus, Oscar S., and the National Civic Federation, 234, 235. Strikes: on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 84, 85; at Homestead, 228-39; at the steel-rail works, 240, 243. Sturgis, Russell, 168. Success, true road to, 176, 177. Sun City Forge Company, 115 _n._ Superior Rail Mill and Blast Furnaces, 115. Surplus, the law of the, 227. Swedenborgianism, 22, 50, 51. _Sweet By and By, The_, 341, 342. Taft, William H., and the Philippines, 363, 365. Tariff, protective, 146-48. Taylor, Charles, president of the Hero Fund, 266, 267. Taylor, Joseph, 58. Taylor Hall at Lehigh University, 266. Teaching, a meanly paid profession, 268. Temple of Peace, at The Hague, 284, 285. Tennant, Sir Charles, President of the Scotland Steel Company, 356, 357. Texas, story about, 334. Texas Pacific Railway, 172 _n._, 173. Thaw, William, vice-president of the Fort Wayne Railroad, 190. Thayer, William Roscoe, _Life and Letters of John Hay_, quoted, 216, 358, 359. Thomas, Gen. George H., 107. Thompson, Moses, 223. Thomson, John Edgar, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 72; an evidence of his fairness, 117; offers Mr. Carnegie promotion, 140; shows confidence in him, 163; steel mills named for, 188, 189; financially embarrassed, 192. Tower, Charlemagne, Ambassador to Germany, 366, 368. Trent affair, the, 102. Trifles, importance of, 36, 124, 159, 248. _Triumphant Democracy_, published, 309; origin, 330-32. Troubles, most of them imaginary, 162.