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Show COTNTLESS MMLILflOMS AMERHCMfS than there used to be, but the Increasing tenderness of the public conscience makes It worth the while of newspapers and magazines to dig FOR DOB WORKS them up. Wtl I If communication could le cstab Ibheil with Mars and a Mg bundle of American newspapers and magazines Kent up there, the Intelligent Martians, reading them, might well exclaim: "Why, these people must be rotten to the core!" The harsh judgment won. be pardonable. for the Martians would come across "graft" stories by the dozen and the score stories of "graft" In politics, "graft" in business, graft in industry, graft" everywhere. No doubt the searchlight of publicity Is desirable and necessary, but a searchlight blinds the eye to everything except the object upon which it Is directed. And there is a great deal In America besides graft. Why not the for once, upon look, bright side f the shield? A materialistic and corrupt nation." That was how America was summed op the other day by a writer in the Saturday Review, most anti-America- f n periodicals. all-Englis- Materialistic. No people on earth do more, or stand ready to do more' for good works that are not material. Let a man bring forward any scheme for the uplifting of his kind and demonstrate its claim to public support, and he will get the money and help the needs more readily in America than anywhere else. No people on earth spend anything like so much money as the Americans do for charities, 'educalibraries, tion, hospitals, parks, churches and other good works. The most striking Materialistic? protest against materialism in the world to-da- y is being made in Ameri- ca. It is the erection of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York city the largest religious edifice to be started since the middle ages, when thousands of zealots worked their lives away rearing Europes famous cathedrals." The American millionaire may make his money in materialistic ways, but he spends it nobly. During 1903 eight-teeAmericans gave a total of more than $63,860,000 for- - educational, benevolent and religious purposes. Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller gave the most, the former $15,878,-$00- , and the latter gentleman $11,990,-667- . The biggest single gift was Mr. Rockefeller's $7,000,000 for a postgraduate medical college and hospital n in Chicago. The total of the gifts and bequests of sums above $5,000 during last year exceeded $85,000,000. They were for an Infinite variety of educational and benevolent institutions throughout the country, and with few exceptions, the donors bestowed the money wisely and found out some new thing that needed doing. In most cases the char- It at I'tll-Op- s earth wheru the man who is "down end out is more carefully ard kindly looked after. Paupers dependent upon r .I.Mlt't Jm ) I III1 - t III, i I :i!i-lt- . ill. I cl.tlai M l l:i tllll!i11)( ? Who can doubt that there is ph nty of "graft" in Europe wit hunt tin searchlight of publicity to show It up? William Thorp in New York Ure.--s. I AN ANTIDOTE TO THE GRAFT STORIES WE HEAR SO MUCH OF (.111 lull Itu- - i l.ll! Ilf the municipalities are far better treat- ity was confined to America; but, be ed in America than In any European AT AN ENGLISH CHRISTENING. cldes Mr. Carnegies foreign gifts, country and their cost to the taxJohn I). Rockefeller gave $50t,rtoo for payers per head is much higher. They Elegance of Baptismal Robes and Forarchaeological research In Egypt ami have ail the comforts they need to mality of the Occasion. make Much and more in England Is made of life endurable, and they are oven Ilabylonia, ller.ry Phipps gave large sums for the benefit of the teem- given a good many luxuries that would christening than bore. Nowadays our make the Old World Bumbles, lift their English cousins make a social funcing millions of Ilrltish India. their hands In horror. Yet the num- tion of what formerly was a purely ber of paupers In the United States is religious affair: and there is a large comparatively small when compared gathering at the church where the with that of European countries. Ac- ceremony is performed, and this Is cording to the last returns they num- followed by a reception at the home of bered 7?, 03. of whom 5S.-per cent the childs parents. The number of were of foreign extraction, Great sponsors is no longer restricted to Britain, with not much more than half two godfathers and one godmother, for the population, has considerably more a boy. and two godmothers .and one than Poo.noo paupers. godfather for a girl, but four and "Materialistic America bids fair to oven six sponsors appear. (Jit cm lead the world pretty soon in instituAlexandra is often godmother, and her tions devoted to science and art. The g'ft to her godchild is generally a Smithsonian is one of the finest muse- pearl and diamond pendant. Other ums in the world, and the world, and godmothers are giving xaluable lace tiie American Museum of National His- or jewels, hut soinetim.es give monox tory is already the largest natural instead, the sum varjing from $250 history museum in existence, anil Is to $2r.uoO. The nurse always recuives to lie made four times larger than from them a note varying from $.7 to it is at present. The Metropolitan $ldo, or a bit of handsome jewelry. Museum of Art cannot yet compare The reception following the cere with the host galleries of Europe; but mony is a white function, so far as it may do so wlien the Jacob S. Rog- decorations and the gown of the ers bequest of $0,no0,ooo has been childs mother go. Tin baby itself is wisely expended. always beautifully dressed In a slip The time is coming when America of white satin or silk, over which is will lead In art of all sorts as well as drawn a robe of rich lace. Bridal veils in its vast material achievements. are often draped over the slip instead And when American art shall bo devel- of a regular robe. laird and laidy oped it will he broad, virile, aspiring Castleronghs children were christenin greater degree than the art of any ed in an Irish lace robe, the work of of the older nations. It will he typical the lacemakers on thoir Irish estate. of the greatest nation that has ever Mount Stewart, laidy Dudley had her existed. first child christened draped in the bridal veil she wore at her wedding. America more for spends infinitely The vast' sums given by the multibenevolence, libraries, millionaires are, however, only a drop education, Same Old Feeling. in the bucket of money that America churches, parks, the advancement of science and art for all and was It the humanizing morning after when the spends for great and good works. and does than man mot his Southern friend in the uplifting agencies The states and the cities pour out hunany hotel cafe. Ho was about to try a dreds of millions for schools, parks, European nation. There are plenty of rich Americans hair of the dog that hi t him and lie playgrounds, hospitals and other benewho. are giving themselves, as well made the usual inquiry: ficent institutions. Yes, suh, I will. I was about to America has not yet got the finest as their money, to the cause of the poor. older one when you appeared, said library in the world, but it will be surThe old sneer at sordid, materialise the Southernerprising if she does not have it within a generation. Already the Congressional Library at Washington ties with the Royal Library at Berlin for fourth place among the libraries of the world in number of volumes. The National, the British Bibliotheque Museum and the Imperial Library at - St. Petersburg surpass it. Harvard university comes fifth on the list, having more volumes than any other uniThe famous versity in the world. Badleian. at Oxford has only 550,000 to Harvards 910,000! If America has not yet got the best library in the world, she can lay claim to the best hospital. That is the verdict of Sir Felix Semon, the distinguished throat specialist, who is one of the best authorities on the subject. He has worked and studied in the best hospitals in London, Berlin, Vienna and Paris; but when he inspected the Mount Sinai hospital in New York city, during his recent visit to America, he said: This is unquestionably the finest hospital in the world. There is none to equal it in London, which prides itself on its hospitals above everything else. The buildings are better adapted for hospital purposes than any that I have seen, and the equipment is magnificent. You give to the poor patients luxuries and medical comforts which the rich cannot purchase in London. It is all magnificent wonderful! There is nothing like it anytic America is out of date. It will where." somesoon be necessary to bring in the Foreign visitors to America times say that the struggle for suc- New World to redress the balance of cess is keener and more cruel here the Old in all things that are lovely than anywhere else that life is a and of good report. As for the insiststrenuous race, with each man for ent graft scandals, there is nothing himself, and the devil take the hind- new in them. They are hardy perenmost. But there is no country on nials. There are no more of them They sat silent for a little and with an effort, the man asked: do you feel this morning, Colone The Southerner straightened bit and replied: How do I feel? suh, I feel as every true Soul gentleman does in the morninj feel like hell, suh. New York S |