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How could youo~ she stammered.
"How could you speak to me
so?"
But he was merciless. "Oh, I'm
not blind, and I'm not deaf either.
I've seen and I've heard; but |
didn't need to see or to hear. Don't
you suppose I've always known
you married me out of spite, out
of pique, because Cort Bent
wouldn't marry YOU. | knew it
then just as ! know it now: but |
hoped could win YOU back and
that things would be the same as
they were before he came meddling
in my affairs. Well, you know
what happened better than do.
Our marriage has been a failure
| was a fool; so We're you. We've
made the best Of a bad job: but
that don't make it a good job. |
let you go your own way. I've
been good to YOU because | knew
I'd been as big a fool as you were.
What didn't know was that
you u IlCI vi Dtill DSlIiIId MY
back
"That is not truel" she broke
in. THAT day he called here
Don't explain" impatiently.
at won't help matters. I'm not
blind. The main fact is that
ycu've seen Cort Bent again and
that you're still in love with him.
These people are talking about
you
"Who, Mrs. Cheyne:?"
ayes, Mrs. Cheyne-and Others.
Camilla steadied herself with a
hand on the table. The brutality
of his short. sharp indictment un-
nerved her for the moment. She
had hoped he would have given her
the opportunity to make an cx-
PLANTATION in her own way, a con-
fcssion even, which, if he had willed,
might have brought them nearer in
spirit than they had ever been;
but that was now impossible.
Every atom of him breathed n
tagonism, and the words Of hei
avowal were choled in the hot
suffusion of blood that pride and
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assist in any way that will increase the
power and usefulness of the University"
This sum places Princeton near the front
of American universities in point of
wealth.
David Rankin, jr.. of st. Louis is a con-
spicuous siver of the year.
In order that he may die poor Mr.
Rankin has given his fortune Of s., OO0. 600
to the support Of the Rankin School of
Mechanical Trades. Few people, even
in St. Louis know Mr.. Rankin personally.
He avoids publicity of every nature and
is never in the limelight. He is a bache-
Tor. born in Ireland seventy-hve years
ago. and he amassed his fortune in real
estate and stock deals. He Is an advo-
home unpretentiously over grocery
store.
J. Pierpont Morgan is credited with
giving 100000 to various institutions,
although his gifts, if fully known. would
undoubtedly reach far greater sum,
Mr.. Morgan was one of the largest con-
tributors to the Hartman Palisades Park
fund and the city of Hartford, Conn.,
was enriched by a twO-hundred- and fifty
thousand-do'lar memorial building as a
tribute to his father. Junius Spencer Nor
gan. Mr.. Morgan was a donor to the
amount of 100000 to the Protestant
Church unity fund and Of similar
amount to Trinity College, Hartford,
Conn. His other benef ctions were a
collection Of Indian costumes. weapons
and utensils valued at $SOOOO to the
Museum of Natural History. New York;
$4,000 to the University Of the South
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North Dakota to obtain a free college ed
ucation, provided he agrees to abstain as
long as lac lives from intoxicating liquors.
tobacco or other narcotics: Hamilton Car
hart. a Detroit manufacturer. made "a gift
disabled railroad employees at Highland
Park III. Mr.. Carhart says that railroad
men helped him to make his fortune and
he wanted TO show his appreciation IN
this manner. Col. Thomas Ill. Swope.
who was so sensationally murdered i'm
Kansas City during 1910. willed Sloo,oW
to various Kansas City charities.
Harriet A. Brown, one or Boston
dressmakers. left $4,000 to be used to
aid the working girls of the Hub: j. Og-
den Armour S1o,oED to the Armour 1nsfi-
tute of Technology for its class I'm avia-
tion. while Greenleaf *. Sheridan LETT
SD 600 to he distributed among his en-
ployes in his cotton firm. Ernest SIM
mons dispensed $4,000 among his EN-
ployes saying that as he had had a pros
porous year he wanted all his helpers 10
share in his success. Mrs Mary T.
Hough stipulated that out of her estate
of S35UoO $1,000 should be given to her
husband Charles j Hough. and the re
manning S.l4. 900 to charities.
Mrs Spencer Trask. whose husband
was killed I'm 1909 on the New York Cer-
trail ia 'lroad, gave S3a,o0o, or half the
amount of the death damages collected
from the road, to the village of Saratoga,
N V for civic improvement.
downright 1910 by the Associated Literary
Iress.l
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and has largely endowed five kindergar-
tens and a manual training school ia San
Francisco, several similar institutions in
Washington and given considerable
sums to the American University at
Washington. presented further S;a)0,oOO
to the University of California for an
anthrppological museum.
Henry Phipps added to his other gen.
erous contributions to medical research
another $5OO.OoO given to the University
in campaign against tuberculosis.
-
George w. Patten, the millionaire grain
operator who died September 8. left a
fortune which it is expected will be used
in aid of the anti tuberculosis campaign.
Two weeks before Mr.. Patterns death he
created a fund of $5O0,O0O. to be known
as. the Agnes and Louisa Patten fund,
for the endowment of the Evanston Hos
pital Association.
+, OF Darius Ogden Mills fortune $JOlOOO
went to charitable purposes. The Mu-
scum of Art, the Museum of Natural
History, the Home for Incurables and the
Botanical Gardens. all of New York
city, received 100000 each. The Ma
tional Red Cross and st. Luke's Hospital,
San Francisco. also received benefactions.
The gift to the hospital was not stipu-
lated in Mr.. Mills will, but his children,
knowing his wishes in the matter, set
aside $4,000 from their share for this
charity.
John Everett Smith, a wealthy printer
of Norwood, Mass, made Tufts College
the legatee of his half-million-dollar es-
tate. and James Scott of Detroit willed
similar sum to his native city. directing
that the amount be used to erect a foun-
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of the City of New York and the New
York Society for the Relief of Ruptured
and Crippled Children
x ::
The late Prof. Goodwin Smith made
Cornell University his beneficiary to the
extent Of $685. 900. The gift was made un-
conditionally, Prof Smith saying, Il do
this to show my affection for the uniyer-
sity. in the foundation of which / had
the honor of taking art: to pay respect
to the memory OF Ezra Cornell, and to
show my attachment as an Englshman
to the union Of the two branches of our
race on this continent with each other
and with their common mother" Mr.
Smith also left 100000 to various chart
ties
BY the will of Matthias HolIenback Ar
not of Elmira, N. V, that city benefited
to the amount Of $635.OOO. Mr.. Arnot left
his beautiful home, with his art gallery,
to the city. with an additional endow,
ment fund which makes the gift valued
which was largely supported by Mr.. Ar
not's generosity during his lifetime, re-
ceived $4,000
Arthur Lewisohn Of New York city
gave $6aO, Goo to the following institu-
tions: Columbia University School Of
Mines, $25O.O00; Mount Sinai Hospital,
$4,000 for a pathological laboratory.
and the Hebrew sheltering School for
Mrs Phoebe Hearst, who has given
100000 to the University Of California
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Louis gave similar amount to the Ger
manic Museum at Harvard University:
John w. Gates, the fnancier. contributed
$2JO.GW to the University of the Metho-
dist Church. and George G. and William
s. Mason OF Evanston. H.. like amount
to Yale for laboratory of mechanical
engineering.
The Woman's Auxiliary of the Protes-
ant Episcopal Church collected for for
egn missionary work S242.O0O
Among the smaller" gifts certain ones
are conspicuous. on account of some odd
ity in connection with them. Among
these s. Z. King of Ottawa. Kan, sets
aside 100000 for the education of young
men, STIMULATING that they do not study
for the ministry. William X. Vanderbilt
astounded the French by changing the
course of a public road that ran by his
barns at Poissy. Automobiles were thus
diverted from the thoroughfares used by
the French people and their horSe-drawn
vehicles, and the expense to Mr. Wander
bilt was $20o,O0o
Joseph Hull. regarded as a miser. who
lived the life of a hermit for number of
years in Cheshire, Conn, surprised all
his neighbors by leaving $1O0,000 to the
Baptist Association of Connecticut: Neils
Poulson gave S1OO.0D to the American
Scandinavian Society to further educa-
tional intercourse between the nations;
Charles Botsfor left 100000 to enable
any Christian young man in Idaho or
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of any and all the elements of human
progress. ~-'- 1850 - -
The incorporators named were John D.
Rockefeller. John D. Rockefeller. jr-.
Frederick T. Gates, Starr ]. Murphy and
Charles o. Heydt. Mr.. ROckefeller's en-
dOwment OF his less comprehensive bene-
faction. the general education board, was
SjO.OOO,OOO, and his gifts during the past
twenty years, according to his chief al
moner. Frederick T. Gates. have ex-
ceeded s15O.OO0OO0. How much will ufi-
mately be invested in the Rockefeller
Foundation, provided 1t is authorized by
Congress, is a matter of conjecture. But
if it should transpire that Mr.. Rookie
Teller intends thus to dispose of the Great
er part of his fortune. the year 1911 will
Outdistance in the amount of its philan-
lions on millions.
If one looks beneath the uninviting as
pect of the cold figures and the bewilder
ing statistics associated with the gifts
to philanthropy there is seen a psychology
which makes for optimism. The heart
and mind are thrilled with the revela-
ton. Since the civil war, less than fifty
years ago, statistics prove that more than
one billion dollars has been given to our
educational, phlanthrOpic and religious
institutions. Americas men and women
do not build for themselves great mausO-
leums as did the kings and queens of
old, thereby sacrificing human life and
using vast sums of money which forever
after was unproductive. Instead they give
of their possessions, both during their
lifetime and after their death. that the
people may help themselves to higher and
nobler lives.
The compilation of the benefactions for
the year 1910 should be read the known
benefactions. People familiar with the
methods of many of our conspicuous
giverS admit that the amounts given would
multiply this total by two were many
donors not actuated by mOdesty and re-
ligion. literally refusing to let their right
hand know what their left hand doeth.
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THE Year Just Closed a
j Great Twelve Months of
Giving by Wealthy Ameri-
cans, Who Have Given Back
to the People More Than a
Billion Dollars Since the
Civil War-$76,ooo,oo 900 to
Education in 1910, 100000, 900
to Religion and Approximate
ly $56,ooo,ooo to General
Charities-A Single Request
of $1o,ooo,ooo to Education
the Largest Gift of the Year
The Known Gifts of Such
Well Known Men and Wom-
en- as Carnegie, Morgan, Mrs.
Sage and Mrs. Harriman-A
$2,ooo,ooo Gift From a Hith-
erto Unknown Woman -
Large Gifts for Odd Uses
Rockefeller's Plan to Incor-
porate His Vast Fortune for
the Benefit of Mankind First
Announced in 1910.
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A Rank Bromidiom,
But Nevertheless I rue

ure on poor Emmet; his progress up and
down the country was marked for a long
stretch of years by weeks upon weeks OF
Cancelled time: And yet the theater
going public always fOrgave him. Other
actors OF his day lost caste and support
through their indulgence in tempestuOus
periods: but by common consent the
lapses from the normal state were entire
ly overlooked ir Fritz Emmett. That sort
of thing seemed to be part of the mans
makeup and system; it was thoroughly
understood by all hands, and folks who
bought seats for an Emmett performance
were gambling all the time; they never
knew in starting whether they would
actually see their favorte on the stage
not.
Once. in Philadelphia. l saw Emmett go
Torrance, in which he had to dance won
derfully and sing many songs-when, to
my certain knowledge. he had been
tually helped into the theater only ten
minutes before curtain rise by two husky
stage hands. Yet he got through per-
fectiy and received the usual need of
acclaim from the audience. But there
was one difficult spot for him. He was
seated on the floor of the stage in the
first act. with a lot of the children of
the piece grouped about him while lie
sang. When the cue came for him to
rise to his feet and begin dance. En-
met scarcely was equal to it. He fought
visibly to make his feet But, once he
got to his feet he went through his dance
as superbly as he had ever done it in his
life.
Another little INSTANCE: Last spring
met on the Atlantic City Boardwalk
Henry Lee. the actor who died Il few
weeks ago. He was with young New
Yorker-a man already successful as a
lawyer. though not above twenty-five
years Of age. ] happened to mention to
Lee that l had seen him play the part
of Loris Iphanoff in Fedora with Fanny
Davenport twenty-seven years ago at the
National Theater in Washington Lee
laughed
Don't make me feel any older than I
am, said he. though he was by no means
old or even elderly. Then he turned to
his young lawyer friend. Here you are
a young man getting along in the legal
profession, he said to his companion,
land yet when / was playing the part
about which / have just heard for the
hrst time in years-the part of Loris
Iphanon in Fedora with Miss Davenport
you had to wait two years yet before
making your entrance into the world
Henry Lee was as we'll known a leading
man al that time as Robert Mantell, who
also had been with Miss Davenport: but
when he died the other day scarcely one
theatergoer in Thousand remembered
who he was or had been, and associated
him merely with the Henry Lee who had
been doing a vaudeville stunt depicting
famous men in history, for several years.
1t was the same Henry Lee, of course
but the man of his youth had been al
most clean forgotten. G. l.. C.
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Which the same if any pessimlstic
person turns around and asks you, is one
of the incest little things imaginable;
one of the things that denotes just how
much social progress Americans have
been and still are making.
For. not to mince words. the New Year
celebration. up to about quarter ol
century ago, when the defater was ap-
piled to the scheme, was nothing more
nor less than one large, gloDuiar, puls9
all-hands-around rum party And the
oueerness of it was that it was a rum
party sanctioned by social custom. Inc
nowadays rum party is sort OF 1uruFe'
on-the-ouiet, under-cover affair, purely
stag, and even SO, the participants IN
such a fiesta have got to be mighty care
full if they don't want to lose the esteem
of their neighbors.
But the New Year blowout of the sew
entities and eighties right here in little old
Washington. as we'll as elsewhere IN
American cities. was nothing more nor
less than sort of licensed foot, in which
all hands of the male persuasion were
privile ged by custom to participate, and d
merely perfunctOry regard for facts die
tateS the statement that il was about the
unprettiest thing that folks with increas-
ing waist lines and thinning hair used to
do in that remote time.
The New Year CALI is now such a
mere d:mmed memory that it is likely
that the younger generation of newspaper
readers, reading about it, will scarcely
understand just exactly what il meant
or signiiied. Not to put too fine point
upon it, then. dear younger generation,
it simply meant and signifed hull passel
of men folks going around from one home
to another anneXing buns unto them
selves. That was about what it meant,
put in the smallest compass.
In those days 1t was the custom for
the women folks who were going to
receive on New Year day to dixie
themselves cut i'm their doli;est indoor
clothes. take their places alongside large
crockery or metal urns filled to the rim
with eggnog or some kind of punch, and
wait for the males of their acquaintance
to sift along. The males were the callers
The males. likewise arraying themselves
i'm their most ornate scenery usually
travelled about in parties of two or three
They'd drop in at the receiving houses
long enough to insert into their dia-
phragms two or three separate and in
dividual hoists of whatever kind Of dis
guiSed firewater happened to be Oh flow.
Then they'd pick up their moccasins and
zephyr along to the next stop: usually i'm
a cab carriage: said carriage or cab
often being sorely needed as the day
waned.
1t was the hilarious way of beginning
a new year. and no mistake. The lid, by
common consent. was of; the rollickers
doing the calling thing virtually were in
vited to go far they liked and then
to keep right on going. They responded
nobly. or ignobly. to the invitation; for
they knew that they were privileged to
get picked. even up to and above the
ears, and it 'ud be all right: there'd be
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and the balance to the French flood suf-
ferers, a tuberculosis hospital at Ak
Les-Bains., a chape! for st. George s
Church. New York city, and the New
York Geological Society.
A rather unusual giver is the anony-
nous New Yorker who contributed
81. 500, 900 to the economic and general
foundation fund, This beauest met with
much opposition and ridicule in the state
legislature, although the bill Incorporating
it was finally passed. The millionaire
sponsor of the bill states that his for
tune amounts to $5O00,OO0, and as he has
but one son to inherit this he thinks the
sum is far too large for the young man 8
good. SO he took this method of applying
half of his wealth for general state char
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In Lotus Land.

GA GOOD turkey dinner and mince
IA pie" said Simeon Ford. the New
York raconteur. always puts us in a
lethargic mood-makes us feel. in fact,
like the natives of NoIa Chucky.
In Nola Chucky one day 1 said to
man:
What is the principal occupation of
this town.
"'WalI. boss. the man answered.
yawning, in winter they mostly sets or
the east side of the house and folders
the sun around to the west, and in sum-
mer they sets on the west side and fol-
lers the shade around to the east -
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Concerning
Wen-kn0Wn People.

than Oliver Wendell Holmes tobacco res
olution.
Mr. Holmes. with affected grayity,
said to a friend on the first day OF the
year:
~ really must not smoke so persist
emily; / must turn over new leaf-a
tobacco leaf-and have a cigar only after
each'-here he paused as IL to say meal
but he continued-'after each cigar.
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? POW soon we are forgotten.

POW soon We are forgotten.
- That. Of course, il rank bro
= - midiom, yet il is inc truest of all
bromidioms
The other day, in conversation with a
young newspaper mailman of about
twenty-hve-I happened 10 mention that
wolfert's Roost, the beautiful Albany es-
tate in which the late David B. Hill died
recently, had been originally the property
Of Fritz Emmett.
Fritz Emmett said my companion,
puzzledly. who was he?"
At first thought 1t was astonishing, of
course. to think there could be man in
the world who did not know about Fritz
Emmet. And yet. upon reflection, 1t
wasn't quite astonishing. My compan-
Ion. born only about d quarter of GEN.
tury ago, was only six or seven years of
age when Fritz Emmett died: and Fritz
Emmett. after all. had been only an actor
"a member of profession the fame OF
the greatest figures of which is amaz-
ingiy ephemeraL
Still, to folks who are not yet in middle
life IL will appear remarkable that even
quite young folks don't know all about
Fritz Emmei, the Incompatible yOdlng
singer, the wonderful dancer. the oddly
winning delineant of sentimentaIizeC
Dutch" characters Certainly there has
been no man on the stage since his death
to compare with him, as. indeed, he had
no rival during his life. He was vel
known everywhere in the world, and in
his day 1t would have been hard to find q
srown-up person or even d young one OF
q theater-going family who hadn't seer
and heard Joseph *. Emmett in his
Cuckoo song and dance; who hadn't lis
tened TO him sing his wonderful "Rock-a
bye-his own composition. like all Of his
songs-to the accompaniment of his
guitar. Emmet was past middle life wher
he died, but up TO the very day of his
death he had grace in dancing.
There was reason, aside from his
fame as stage figure, why the name OF
poor Fritz Emmett often appeared in the
newspapers He was man who had the
unfortunate habit of going on periodical
sprees, and when on one OF these sprees
Emmet's prodigality was something enor-
nous, although he never was offensive ol
otherwise than a quiet kindly chap, to
whom an unfortunate propensity probably
had been fastened to him by heredity
Fritz Emmett was a headline to which
the older generation became as accus-
toned the summer season headline
that tells of the idiot who rocks the boat
and the whole land was interested IN
knowing just how long the captivating
Emmett would last between breakoutS and
all that sort of thing. Theater managers
the country over never knew how to fig
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Coy, But

WILLIAM r. HOTCHKGN. president
w of the Sphinx Club, said OF adver-
tising at the clubs recent banquet at the
Waldorf-Astoria. in New York:
Honest advertising and honest gooos
are the only methods that pay. The pub
lie wants honest goods. Advertise them.
them honestly. and the coy public will
respond like Peggy.
- Peggy, said Sandy, 'Ah'm sayin'
Peggy, will All kiss yer cheek
IF ye dae, said Peggy, Anil
skreich.
OH said Sandy, 'dinna skreich.'
- AN don't We kiss me on the nooth,
them, said Peggy, for IL We did All
coulnda skreich at ALL {"
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The New Year.

THE late Julia Ward Howe was no
/ believer i'm New Year resolutions.
1--WE should make and keep good reso-
lutions all the year round the ceie-
brated author once said in Boston.
am no great believer in New Year vows.
for, although they are splendid things,
they really don't amount to much more
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the fact that xlbo, 49, ,l-o.o- mas o. eo~'N'
been given back to the people. not by en-
forced taxation or governmental resuld-
ton but voluntarily and presumably nap
PLY, with no purpose on the part OF the
possessors of wealth beyond desire 10
relieve and uplift the condition OF those
less fortunate than themselves. Of this
total. S76.Oe8.4IS was contributed to edu-
cation, $50. II5 1871 TO religion and 500
1I4,s49.65 to general charities, in this last
classification being included Carnegie
xiO.C0O.OO6 world peace gift.
This was the year, too. when the Worio
was stirred to hope that the fortune OF
John d. Rockefeller. in its entirety or In
great part, will ultimately be devoted TO
the common good. March % bill was
introduced into the United States Senate
by Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire
for the Incorporation Of the Rockefeller
foundation under the laws of the Dlstrict
of Columbia. The object of the founoa-
ton, as stated at the time, is to promote
the well-being and advance the civ1ilza-
tion Of the peoples of the United States
and its territories and possessions ano
of foreign lands in the acquisition ana
dissemination Of knowledge. in the pre-
vention of suffering and in the promotioh
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\ spite of the much
talk about the con-
centration of wealth
in the hands of the
few, it would seem
that there is little
danger of such a
condition menacing
America SO long as
it's people are filled
with philanthropic
purposes. The year
just ended reveals
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For instance, Miss Helen Gould, who is
known throughout the world for the large
and varied character of her charitable
gifts. is credited with the small amount
of $4,000. If she permitted her benefi-