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MADE GIFTS BY MILLIONS Rockefeller’s Wealth Ex ceeds a Billion If He Has Adhered to His Original Biblical Plan of Devoting One-Tenth of His Total Accumulation to Charity Much of His Donating Has Been Accomplished with Scriptural Secrecy. I will surely give the tenth to thee.— Genesis Let not tliy left hand know what thy right hand aoeth.—Matthew 6:3. John O. Itockefeller, upon whose oil monopoly the United States gov ernment has laid a penalty of over $29,OOO,0CO for alleged violations of the lav/ against rebates, has given * away, up to the present time, more than $100,003,000 “for public good"— to churches, schools, hospitals, asylums and missions. In an address some years ago be fore a Cleveland religious gathering of his own Baptist faith Mr. Rockefeller told the story of his early struggles. He said lie had always followed the Scripture rule adopted by him when a poor clerk, which provides for giving one-tenth of his earnings to charity. Accepting this statement as true, it follows, from a simple mathematica! calculation, that the oil king has made during his business career at least a biliion dollars, in order to have given away a hundred millions, unless per chance in an excess of zeal for the public weal he has trespassed on his capital. It is the general testimony of those who have been brought in close con tact with Mr. Rockefeller that he has likewise followed, more closely thar. the ordinary public benefactor, that other Scripture maxim in regard to the right and the left hand in the act of giving. He has never, so far as known, handed out a list of his dona tions, although it is said that such a list has been compiled by one of his secretaries and is now in the inner archives ol' the general education board. Said to Be an “Easy Mark.” Mr. Rockefeller's reputation among professional gift hunters is that cf an “easy mark;” that is, if approached cautiously and yet frankly and plaus ibly through properly accredited chan nels he gives up generously and much mfre easily than the great steel king whose benefactions rival those of the founder and preserver of the Standard Oil company. Mr. Rockefeller, say his friends, is not a man of the world in the ordinary sense of the term. Un til ten or a dozen years ago he was so engrossed in the development of the oil business that he knew little of what was going on. He attended church and devoted himself to busi ness, and that was about as far as he went. Although he has been compelled to take more leisure in the last ten years, on account of his health, and consequently has been drawn into other spheres of experience and obser vation whereby he has grown interest ed in the general subject of secular as well as religious education, he has never crossed the threshold of art, of literature or of science. Hence the limited primary scope of his colossal gifts. From this is to be excepted his interest in the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, which was originally aroused, however, by a mis fortune in his own immediate family, and not, it is said, by any general con siderations for humanity at large. John D. Rockefeller's charity has as sumed four great forms of expression; Church and mission work.$15,000,000 The general and southern educa tion boards . 44,000.000 The University of Chicago . 22.000,000 The Rockefeller institute. 2.000,U00 Private gifts to schools, individuals, churches, parks, hospitals, societies and reformatory and benevolent insti tutions have absorbed the rest of the $100,000,000. Started with Church Work. During the first quarter century ot his business career Mr. Rockefeller’s charities did not extend beyond church and missionary work. He began his activity in that direction in Cleveland, where he gradually built up, in con junction with other rich Baptists, a splendidly equipped church and parish. He has always considered Cleveland his home city, and has given large amounts to nearly every one of the publicly supported institutions there, including the parks in his donations. As the oil king grew in fortune he gradually became a dominant figure in the Baptist denomination throughout the United States and gave systemat ically to the foundation and main tenance of Baptist churches through out the length and breadth of the country. He eaiiy became interested in the “working church” scheme, and under the guidance of Dr. Judson and ethers “invested” largely in the new Idea. The working church, it was ex plained to him, would solve the indif ference of the masses in the great cities toward the cause of religion. Mr. Rockefeller accordingly estab lished. wilh Rev. Dr. Judson, the fine religious institution of that kind on Washington Square South, in Cleve land, known as the Judson Memorial.. He likewise stood behind Rev. Daniel C. Potter in the d3velopmeDt of the Baptist tabernacle, on Second avenue, at St. Mark's place. These two men did not eventually get along well to gether. Rockefeller was implacable, and in the cud Pastor Potter entered the municipal service. His Benefactions Broadened. From church work to mission work wan but a step, and as Mr. Rockefel ler grew interested, first in foreign and then in domestic missions, he gave up millions for those two causes In mission work as in church work, he at first restricted his outpourings to the Baptists. Little by little, I John D. Rockefeller. though, he was drawn toward the Con gregationalists. until now he is open to the appeals of mission work in any and all denominations. The cry "tainted money!" was first raised against the Standard Oil head i in connection with his proposed gift of ?10f),O0ti to the Congregational mission board. A New England clergyman started the protest, which was taken ] up by Rev. Washington E. Gladden, of Chicago, who filled t.he land with the reverberations. Rockefeller and his friends replied to the issue and the controversy raged for weeks. The gift was finally accepted, the hue and cry having meantime somewhat sub sided. It was in 1888 that Mr. Rockefeller took his first important step outside of church and mission work and became interested in the University of Chica go. The late E. R. Harper, head ot the institution, had heard of the oil king as a great giver, and, trusting to luck, he made what he himself after ward described as a “running leap” toward him—and landed. Mr. Harper was a fluent and energetic man and one of the most successful money raisers that ever entered the educa tional field. Under his persaasive eloquence Mr. Rockefeller consented to become the patron of the institution.. He laid no restrictions on the faculty or the trus tees as to creeds, dogmas or methods of teaching. His initial gift of $234,000 was made in January, 1889, and w^s followed up with a gift of $600,000 in June. Since then he has contributed about $1,000,000 a year to the founda tion and maintenance of the uni versity. Er.crmous Sums to Colleges. At the same time he has given large ly to other colleges throughout the country, his gifts to them, however, being for the most part conditional on their raising at loa3t as much more elsewhere. His gifts to the University of Chicago, on the contrary, have been outright. He has donated more than $1,250,000 to Barnard college; $1,100, 000 to'Union Theological seminary; $1,000,000 to Harvard; $1,000,000 to Yale; $500,000 to the Teachers’ college in New'York; $500,000 to Johns Hop kins; $400,000 to Vassar; $325,000 to Brown university, and so on. It was after he become the patron of the University of Chicago that Mr. Rockefeller’s attention was directed by President Harper and others to the need for educational activity among the negroes of the south. He made his first large contribution to the southern educational board in 1901. Robert C. Ogden was one of those who interested Mr. Rockefeller in the movement, which, under the inspira tion of Mrs. Rockefeller, soon took the vastly more comprehensive form of. a plan to aid the general cause of education among whites and blacks in all parts of the country. $43,OCO,OCO for Education. The general education board was therefore incorporated at Washington. It was said at the time that the board was to be virtually a chartered form for John D. Rockefeller's charities, which was thereafter to be concen trated under that one impersonal and systematic administrative shape. Mr. Rockefeller started off with a donation of $1,000,000. In 1905 he gave $10,000, 000, and in February, 1907, he an nounced a further donation of $32, 000,000. This doubtless was the largest sum ever given by one Individual for a specific purpose. This unsurpassed donation brings his aggregate contri bution to the general education board up to $43,000,000. Of the $43,000,000, the Initial $1,000, C00 was to be devoted to work in the southern states. The second gift of $10,000,000 was to be used to “pro mote a comprehensive system of high er education in the United States.” This excluded common schools and academies. Of the $32,000,000 consti tuting the third gift, one-third is for the:* board outright to use as it deems best. Two-thirds are reserved for dis tribution under the direction of John D. or his son. It is said the elder Rockefeller is preparing a new plan of benefaction, the nature of which has not yet been disclosed. His son now represents him in all his sys tematic charities. $102,055,000 Grand Tctal of the Rockefeller Benefactions General Education Board .$43,000,000 ' University of Chicago . 21,400,000 Rush Medical College . 6,000,000 Churches (known) . 3,100,000 1 Missions (known) . 2,300.000 Baptist Foreign Mission Fund . 2,000,000 , Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research . 2,000,000 , Barnard College . 1,375,000 Southern Education Fund . 1,125,000 Union Theological Seminary . 1,100,000 Harvard University . 1,000,000 Baptist Educational Society . 1,000,000 Yale University . 1,000,000 Juvenile reformatories . 1,000,000 Cleveland city parks . 1,000,000 Nine Y. M. C. A.'s . 845,000 Teachers' College . 600,000 Johns Hopkins . 500,000 Vassar College . 400,000 Brown University . 325,000 Seven small colleges . 320,009 McMasters’s College . 275,000 Rochester Theological Seminary . 250,000 Cornell University . 250.000 j Bryn Mawr College . 350,000 , Case School of Science, Cleveland . 250,000 Oberlin College . 200,000 Spelman Seminary, Atlanta . 180,000 | Newton Theological Seminary . 150,000 Adelphl College . 125,000 University of Woos'.er, O . 125,000 . Children's Seaside Home . 125,000 Presbyterian work in Egypt and the Soudan . 100,000 Cleveland Social Settlement . 100,000 Syracuse University . 100,000 I Smith College ..... 100,000 Wellesley College . 100,000 Columbia University . 100,000 I Dennison College . 100,000 I Curry Memorial . 100,000 Furman University . 100,000 Lincoln Memorial Fund.. 100,000 . University of Virginia . Cleveland Y. W. C. A. 100,000 University of Nebraska . 100,000 Arcadia University . 100,000 Indiana University . 50.000 Mount Holyoke College ...... 60,000 Shurtleff College . 35.000 School of Applied Design for Women . 25,000 i .Bucknell University . 25.000 William Jewell Institute . 25.000 I Howard College . Jg.OOO i Miscellaneous gifts prior to 1802 . 7.000,000 | GRAND TOTAL .$102,065,000 -- ~ - - ----- i CLOTH FROM IRON AND STOVE. A Wool Made in Electrical Furnace— Fabric from Old Ropee. Cloth of gold the fairy books de scribe; cloth of iron is a real product of the mills. Iron cloth is used large ly to-day Jjy tailors for making collars of coats set fashionably. It is manu factured from steel wool by a netv process, and has the appearance of having bden woven from horsehair. Wool which never saw the back of a sheep is being largely utilized on the continent for making men'B suits. It is known by the name of limestone wool, and is made in an electric fur nace. Powdered limestone mixed with a certain chemical is thrown into the furnace and after passing under a furious blast of air is tossed out as fluffy white wool. After coming from the furnace the wool 1b dyed and (bully made into lengths of cloth. A pair of trousers or a coat mqfle from (his material can be burned or dam tyr grease and Is as flexible as the sheep's wooL Some time ago an English clothing manufacturer succeeded in making a fabric from old ropes. He obtained a quantity of old rope and cordage and unraveled them by a secret process into a kind of rough cloth. A suit of clothes made from it and worn by the manufacturer himself proved strong in the extreme and kept its color well. It is said that a number of goods sold by some of the best London tailors at low prices are made of old ropes. BACK TO BOYHOOD DAYS. City Man Reveled in Home-Cooked Dishes of His Youth. One satisfied man has just returned from a two weeks’ vacation. He spent It on a farm, owned by an old aunt, and the royal way in which she fed him, to use his own description, form- j ed the chief delight of his holiday. “You see,” he remarked, confiden tially, “my wife is a graduate of a never have a meal which Isn't perfect ly balanced as to food values. The things we eat are chosen wfth refer ence to that, and not with regard to whether we like them especially. Well, I can tell you, old Aunt Laura, with her table just groaning with forbidden, indigestible articles, was a mighty wel come change to me. “She never heard of carbo-hydrates, or phosphates or cellulose, and tfhe wouldn’t know proteid if she met oife in a bean porridge, where, by the way, I believe they largely congregate. But, I tell you, her fried chicken and fresh pork and doughnuts and biscuits were the finest things I’ve had in years. My wife actually paled when she saw me eat, and I know she was wor rjfd because we were bIx miles from a doctor. I was never sick for a minute, though, and those two weeks of old-fashioned, unscientific cooking have made me feel like a new man or, rather, a hoy again.” It is the girl who does not measure This Is the day of the filmy frock and also the day of the heavy linen coat and skirt costume, and as for silk, the latter fabric is made up in almost every sort of frock, simple or elaborate. Silks vary so in every re spect save their material that in no other fabric, perhaps, is so great va riety to be found. From the thinnest of Indias and Chinas to the heavy faille, silken robes run a long gamut, and whether plain, figured, chine, or brocaded, they may be either heavy or light in weight as in coloring. v Taffeta is a silk always worn. Of recent years the improvements in this silk have been so great that even the woman of most modest means may essay a taffeta gown without fear of its cracking as it hangs in the closet. The chiffon weaves are soft and sup ple, and while it must be admitted that the chances are slim for air get ting through its close weave, yet it is thin and cool to the touch and weighs almost nothing. The black and white striped cloths in the very light weights, or the voiles, and also the liberty satins, make up most effectively. The blue serges for traveling and hackabout wear must not be over looked. Many severe tailor-mades in blue serge with no other ornament ex cept a few row's of stitching are among the smartest of the traveling costumes in evidence in the smart restaurants and on the avenue and at the railway stations. The chic serge with its perfect lines is as remote from the cheap copy as diamonds from glass. If a woman is so circum stanced as not to be able to afford the former, let her choose some qther ma terial. The long pongee or rajah traveling coats for train and motor wear are indispensable, and the woman with a small income will find one invalua ble. Coming from the neck to the hem of the gown, they protect and conceal a thin frock suitable for luncheon or theater wear, and being light and thin, are not cumbersome to have thrown over one’s arm, or tem porarily stored away, and as for muss ing, they do not muss easily, and when they do a warm iron repairs damage. The heavier rajahs are more satisfactory than pongees, as they do not muss so readily nor spot and crinkle when wet, and anyone ad dicted to motoring will sometimes get caught in the rain. Striped materials have been so much the vogue the past spring and also this summer in the ready-made coat costumes that there is little pros pect of their being smart for autumn wear. The shepherds’ plaids, however, will, as for some years past, be worn by modish women. This particular plaid or check has for several years been more or less worn by well-dressed women, although the great body of women prefer other costume material. This is probably because checked cloths are worn for outdoor, traveling and formal costume generally by the smart woman, as well as sometimes in elaborate gowns for formal wear, sr while her poorer sister must make one or two costumes take the place of the dozen of the W'oman of wealth, and so selects fabrics that properly made will look well when she makes a morning call, or attends an after noon tea; one that is suitable for shopping and for the theater, too. Really, no hard and fast lines can well be laid down in these matters, and the good judgment and taste of the individual, or the reverse, come into play when choosing gowns. As to the three frocks shown in our large picture. No. 1 is of pale gray voile with hems and collar of pale AN ORIGINAL DESIGN. White Cloth Trimmed with White Mili tary Braid and Buttons—White Straw Hat Shaded Green Satin Ribbon. gray clotb, and the gray crinoline hat Is covered with rucheB of white tulle hemmed with gray ribbon. No. 2 Is a lilac-tinted muslin spotted with white, with a lace vest outlined with a fichu of muslin; and crowned with a white chip hat lined with black and trimmed with white ostrich feath ers, it says the last word of dainty elegance. But no mere dress may have a last word—that’s woman’s privilege for all time, and I’ll express mine—for the moment—in admiration of that last sketch of a frock of lavender-blue tussore, with bands of ecru lawn em broidery piped with purple silk, the purple hat which completes it bear ing purple plumes with becoming grace. Two Views of Drink. “I ain’ had A nip fo’ 's much 's a half bouah,” remarked the Kentucky Colonel when he and Edie came down to fake dinner with the woman. “Now, I suppose you haven’t got a little something about the house in a bottle, have you, to drink?” “No,” said the woman, *1 haven’t I never keep anything of the sort about the house. I’m afraid of drink ing it.” “I’d hate to 'think of keepin' any thin’ of the sort about the house without drlnkln’ it,” said the ColoneL _ Ideals. He kissed her hand. She withdrew it hastily and gazed reproachfully at him. “I didn’t think it of you!” she said, almost tearfully. “I had always con sidered you a young man with Ideals and—”' “I—i am sorry If I have offended," stammered. “I—" ■< “Well;” said bitterly, “I certainly Candor. Borem—“Hello, old man! What’s the matter? You look disgusted.” Cutting—“Yes, I feel that way.” Borem—“Why, what have you run up against now?” Cutting—“You. I didn’t see you soon enough to escape.” Glad He’s Living. Mrs. Crimsonheak—This paper says a normal man breathes 20,000 times in the course of one day. Mr. Crimsonbeak—Yes, my dear;’ that is his privilege while the women are talking.—Yonkers’ Statesman. A Definition. A little girl who had listened to a discussion of the nature-fakers in lit erature, when asked to define the hu man and animal families replied, “A brute is an imperfect beast; man is a perfect beast.” Different. Church—Ever know a man make money on a tip he got in Wall street? Gotham—Cant say I have. But I've known me$ to make money on tips they have given.—Tonkers Statesman Washington Gossip Interesting Bits of News Picked Up Here and There at the National Capital SENATE “THIRSTS” COST $76 APIECE LAST YEAR WASHINGTON. — Senators are a thirsty lot. The report of Charles G. Bennett, secretary of the United States senate, shows that during the last fiscal year that august body con sumed 860 cases of mineral water, costing jf4,504.70. Then there was $2,025.87 for carbonized mineral water, and $318.97 for lemons and sugar for the famoug senate lemonade, making a total of $6,849.54 for drinkables, and not a drop of anything “hard,” as far as the official list shows. Since there are 90 senators, the per capita con sumption is about $76. It should be remembered also that while there are some senators who drink a great deal of mineral waters there are also some who drink very little, and there is much curiosity here as to who drank the most last year. But why in the name of all that Is unparliamentary did any senator need a “skirt trunk” costing $26.70? The official list of expenditures makes no explanation of this interesting item. Another peculiar item is that of “cos metique, 47 cents,” and it is thought this may have been incurred about the same time as the skirt trunk. An echo of the good old days when the senators received free transporta tion from the railroads and were thus enabled to pocket the 20 cents a mile allowed by the government is contained in the item “Pass cases, $9.30.” There are $SS worth of feather dusters on the list, but it is promised that this will not occur again, and it is realized that more effective weapons are re quired in strife with the president. For sponges the senate made the mod est outlay of $510.21, according to pub lished figures. For the large number of baldheads in the senate a remarkable quantity of preparations for the hair was used. Here are some of the entries: Bay rum. $30.26; witch hazel, $14; hair tonic, $32.57; brilliantine, $1.20. A silver inkstand for the vice pres ident’s room costing $200 has been noticed before in the public prints. Then, on the last day of the last ses sion, when the president and his cab inet went to the capitol to help close up the senate, they ate $36.35 worth of food for luncheon. No less than '$209.75 for manicure sets for the mem bers of the senate indicates that the fair manicurists in this town are los ing considerable trade. Six sewing sets at a total cost of $26.50 are on the list Glove and handkerchief sets figure prominently in the report, as also do opera bags, hand bags, engage ment pads, and such like. It is easy to guess that all these articles are utilized by the senators and their families, but it is puzzling to understand who makes way with the hundreds of bushels and pounds of oats, flaxseed meal, bran meal, rock salt, etc., and they certainly do not eat axle grease, soap, rosin, tar, spool cotton, cheese cloth, pumice stone. Georgia pine, screen hinges, brass tacks, wire head nails, monkey wrenches and paste fillers, nor is it reasonable to suppose that these sol ons drink mustang liniment, petro leum, turpentine, arnica, mahogany varnish, and a lot of other stuff that is bought in wholesale lots. These probably were bought for the horses that are used to draw the senate mail wagons, and for the vehicles themselves. ST. GAUDENS’ COINS NOT CONVENIENT FOR HANDLING NEW designs for coins which were to have been minted in Philadel phia which Augustus St Gaudens, the distinguished sculptor, made shortly before his death, have been found un suitable in their present shape for execution with the machinery in use at the mint. Hence, contrary to a current report, the government has not accepted any of them. The gen eral approval which was expressed by the president is not conclusive in an official sense. The law requires that they shall be accepted by the secre tary of the treasury and the director of the mint before being adopted. The projection of the sculptures upon the coins is too high for con venience of handling at banks or other large business establishments. Coins cannot be well “stacked” unless one will lie perfectly flat and snug upon another, and this is impossible where the bas reliefs in the middle are higher than the rim. A pile of the St. Gaudens coins would topple over. It was St. Gaudens’ idea which found especial favor with President Roosevelt, to return to the classical style of coinage. Ancient coins are mostly remarkable for strange pro jections of the sculptured form. But in the ancient world banking and the handling of immense sums of money in the manner of to-day were un known. The designs made by St. Gaudens have been pronounced extremely beau tiful. The American Numismatic so ciety has urgently advocated a more artistic scheme of coinage than that which has been in use in the United States for half a centufy or more. St. Gaudens, under the provisions of the act of congress authorizing the new coinage, retained the chief gen eral characteristics of the old pieces, but gave them in addition an artistic realization. THE BIOLOGICAL BUREAU DEFENDS HAWKS and OWLS A DEFENSE of hawks and owls is entered into by the biological sur vey in a recent report from that bu reau. It is declared that both of these bird families have been condemned by the farmers of the country without discrimination because some of their species are destroyers of valuable things. Mitigating circumstances are found for some otherwise harmless birds because of a lack of proper food in the country where they live. Incidentally, tales of eagles carry ing oft children are declared to have little “foundation in fact,” but the bald eagle, the emblem of the United States, is, nevertheless, said to be “unfortunately fond of lambs, pigs and poultry, and In the more thickly inhabited regions probably Soes as much damage as the golden eagle.” The golden eagle, say the experts, has been known to attack calves and colts and to have carried away from one range in the west in a single year more than 400 lambs. The report of the survey divides the hawk and owl families into four general species as follows: Species wholly beneficial; those chiefly bene ficial; those in which beneficial and harmful qualities about balance; harm ful species. Some of these birds may be good citizens in one locality and extremely “undesirable citizens” in an other. AMUSING ANSWERS BY UNCLE SAM’S EMPLOYES AMUSING answers are pouring in at the post office department from government employes replying to a dozen questions, including one as to their “marital relations.” One veteran says his “marital” con dition is very “timid.” Another man, who is younger, gives the reply that his married life is “hell.” Still others think the question should bring forth a story of their domestic woes and pour out their souls. One said his re lations were “all right, but my wife is dead.” Another said they were “very good; my wife is at the point of death.” Yet another insists that his “marital condition is very good, since he has been a widower for ten years.” One woman announces that her sex is “woman,” another says it is “femi nine,” another says “lady,” while a minister who holds the onerous post of postmaster says his sex is “Presby terian.” A man from Alaska says his color is “pink,” another says he has “au burn hair and blue eyes,” while still more say “Caucasian.” The Congenial Cocktail. “It is curious how the 'morning aft er' cocktail often draws together souls not usually kindred,” said the alert bartender to a New York Sun man as he mixed a cocktail for a customer who looked as though he were as dry as a covered bridgp. “A few mornings ago a citizen who is famous for both his legal and medical knowledge came in here, and it was easy to see what he wanted. He is a large, florid man, and there was that look about him that was eloquent of the night before. JuBt as he ranged up before the bar a tall, ghostly-looklng man with a vary pale face and a very black mus tache which contrasted strongly with his chalklike skin took a place beside him. Nothing could be more unlikely than these two if appearances count for anything. They studied each oth er for a moment. “ ‘Ha, man of the desert, slayer of the Saracens, wilt quafT a bowl with me?’ asked the chalk-faced man. “ ‘Ha, man of the North, I will!’ was the solemn reply of the florid one. Then and there they got to be good friends, and they often came in togeth er afterward.” No Time to 8pare. They that make the best use of their time have none to spare.—Ger man proverb.