The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-11-26
Eor the Gata CITY,

| For the Gate City.
The public sCnSeh usnevsiens 10.
caStv.
There i now il sxistanee IN this city, Ard
has bsen for nearly asysar past, Pohlis
School Bsnevolsus Society. The object d
this association 4 20 suitably clothe and pre-
pare the children Of the poor for attendance
on our public means of instruction. Already
an incalculable amount Of good has been 90
complished. A large number Of ragged,
filthy, vicious, ignorant children haxS been
oiothsd and br ought under the wholesome
restraints OF our public school system, and
now give promise Of future usefulness, Who,
but Tor this institution, might have lived on
in their degradation growing worse and
worse, and becoming moro and more con-
frmsd in habits OF vice.
This society has been sustained by band
Of noble, self sacrificing women women
who breathe the true spirit Of charity, and
whose hearts glow with the warm Impulses
Of generous nature. We would not trumpet
their deeds, - they are doubtless written In
letters Of gold il Gods book Of life; but We
call upon every true, generous, Christian
woman in eur CITY TO unite with thsn In ear
rying on 30 great and noble an enterprise.
We expect nothing, hope nothing, from the
gay butterflies of fashion, whose Every sifss-
ton and synpathy oonoentres on SELF, and
whose loftisst fight Of thought reaches no
higher than 80 love OF : bonnst.n Like
their sister butterflies OF the field they may
fatter about US whom the sky il clear and the
sun bright, but ssthey are birds Of beauty
not OF song" and when the stern actualitiss
OF life gather around us, and the vail Of
agony and want ID loud and long, W may
net hope thGt the music OF their voices will
cheer she dsrkness OF soothe the breaking
heart. But we depend upon the noble msn
and women who 90 magnanimously game for
ward to aid this cause last winter, and whose
geaereas desds sent . thrill Of JOY to every
loving heart in the city. We depend upon
those who have intelligent conceptions Of
life and its relations, and who are willing to
sacrifice the selfshness Of their own natures
for the good Of their fellows. And 10 no
department Of the social system 10 there q
finer Geld for the patriot and philanthropisi
than tie Juvenile department, for there is no
period in human life whom the mind Il 90 sus-
ceptible Of lasting impressions - in child
hood. The first lessons re learn are 90 desp-
" engraved on heart and mind, that years Of
suffering and sorrow cannot obliterate them.
When page after page Of after history i
s6aced aud forgotten, and the mind, care
worn and weary, turns back to ito first REQ
ords-shey stand ont a. fresh and clear ~
in life's early morning. Youth il said TO b
the seed-time Of life. When spring comes
TO bless the earth, il the husbandnan gosth
not forth bearing precious seed to scatter
broadcast over bis fields, he may not hope
for joyous harvest time. In vain will the
earth glow in the glad sunlight, the rains
descend and the dews of heaven distill, II
the germs OF future harvest are not cast
upon her bosom--worse than in vain, for
they win nurture into vigorous growth Q
plenteous harvest Of weeds and tares.
Are We not oil sowers? Sheald We not all
60 forth, bearing the precious seeds Of truth
scattering broadcast into every barren
little mind and heart the frst principles Of
moral and scientific looking
hopefully for those truths to root, germinase
and yield an abundant harvest?
ANNIE.