vied with one another in giving. Rival cities strove with
one another to be first in raising their allotment, and then
started a new contest to see which should go farthest beyond
the mark.

But why recount now the story of that week! It is still
fresh in everybody's memory. It was a typical American
accomplishment, and when at the close of the campaign it
was known that the country had given $115,000,000, there
was rejoicing like that which follows a great political victory.
Better far than that, for it was the rejoicing of a great
people in that they had demonstrated a vast capacity for
unselfishness. And there was still more good news to come,
at least to the managers of the campaign: it was found that
the collecting of this great fund, thanks to the willingness of
everybody to help, had cost only a little over one half of one
per cent.

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