Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-21


HAVING the pleasure OF a call yes
terday evening from Mrs. Laura Reed,
the excellent lady, who, from all the
fulIness of a benevolent heart delight
ing in works of charity, is visiting
different portions of the country, so
Letting aid for the Confederate Or
phans' Home of Mississippi, we had
the pleasure Of listening to the re-
markable story of what the mite and
all of a little girl had done to buy
bread for the destitute. The tale is
touching in the extreme. Jennie s.
Maxley is but thirteen years of age,
and had but her string of beads. This
was not worth much money, and
would not feed all the Confederate
orphans, as her big heart desired; but
it has brought to-day S7499l and
it is bringing more and more
every day. We are informed
that it will be on the ground
at the Confederate picnic to-day in the
hands of Mrs. Reed, its present and
proper custodian. 1t is sold for what
the benevolent choose to give; and
again returned, which is again a
new donation, to which yet again and
again thousands in love and tears will
respond. We quote the following ac-
count of what occurred in Louisville
on the occasion of Mrs. Reeds visit
to that city:
After making a special appeal before a
Sabbath school, in behalf Of the destitute
widows and orphans. a little girl was so
touched by the recital of the starving con-
dition of the South, and the suffering of
little children, that she wept, and her
heart was deeply grieved. Her earnest
desire was to "buy bread" for hungry
children. She brought all her little store
Of dimes, all the clothing she could per-
suade her mother to give, but wept that
she could not buy "mOre bread"
She went through her home seeking
something she could dispose of That she
might feed the hungry" She wore on
her neck a string OF buttons, each button
the gift of some loved friend, and with
each gift was associated a text of scrip
ure which she was to remember-this
AlcllOIg suing Wa e PfCCtv"o
are"
Having sought in vain for any thing
else she could call her own with tears
falling on the bright buttons, she said, AZ
must sell my memory string" h sought
Mrs. Reed, with her sacred and precious
treasure, and as she laid 1t in her
with an expression of deep II earnest
sympathy in her eye, said, ~ wish it TO
buy bread
A LADY,. who witnessed the scene, at
once bought the string, returning it to
Mrs. Reed to sell again and buy "mOre
bread, - thus to increase The store whose
capital was so closely allied with the
heart n loving sympathy of a little
child.
Many hearing the incident nave bought
and returned again this blessed and bread
bearing string, thicker and thicker cluster
around il memories" over which angels
delight to linger. The tears b over a
simple string of buttons, in behalf of the
sOrrOwing, have been responded TO in
places where the garner houses are never
empty. A little child has gone forth weep
ing, bearing precious seed, after many
days she shall return again, bringing the
sheaves of the harvest with her. The
String, up to this time, has bought $2400
(twenty-four hundred dOllars), worth Of
bread.
Up to thisdate this memory string"
has yielded almost eight thousand dol
lars, and we are sure that Memphis
will increase the sum for this best of
all objects.