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
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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.
