Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-09
NOTES AND QUERIES.

good many people who have learned how
sweet are the uses of adversely can testify.
We believe that it is The Order of Nicodemus
whose self-chosen office it is to relieve the
distressed anonymouosly -not letting the
right hand know what the left hand doeth.
At all events lady who is possessed of the
true spirit of charity and who has had occa-
sion to know that besides the tramps and
transients whose privations are many and
grievous, there are many among us who are
actually suffering for the necessaries of life
unfortunate people who are without means
and have no employment. Now Winter Is at
hand This beautiful weather is thought to
presage most rigorous season OF snow and
ice. 1t matters but little where the prevail
ing poverty begins, whether at home or else
where, it is round about us and there ought
to be some organized efforts made toward It's
relief 1t won't do to send every body to the
county. There is wide difference between
poverty and pauperism. Even if we do not
organize Relief Society, much can be done
to alleviate these distresses by people in mod
crate circumstances. There are good many
half-worn or outgrown garments in almost
everybedy's house which would be very wei
come in houses where the hard pinchng hand
of poverty is felt and borne in silence
houses whose distresses are not suspected by
the outside world. There is Special Provi-
dence in the fall upon poor mans floor of a
bag of -four or leg of mutton; there is a
heap of practical charity in bundle of warm
duds for Little Brooches and there is much
of the pith of true christianity in the hanging
of comfortable shawl over the thin shoulders
of hard striving widowhood. Little feet that
get wet are the leaders to groups and dipthe
ria and you and I, if we might, Oh fellow
man of the Strengthened means, now and again
buy pair of shoes for somebody's boy or girl.
Thoughtlessness makes people cruel in many
ways-cruel in inficting unintentional hurts
in not giving the timely aid to the man who
has come down from Jericho and fallen among
thieves and been beaten; cruel in not recogniz
ing the marks of the fingers of pain and hard |
ship, privation and hunger, cold and naked
ness To seek out and find the facts and
places and subjects of extreme want, this is |
one of the beauties of Society for the Pre- |
vention of Distress. Committees whose duty |
1t is to ascertain and quietly report these
things can thus be formed and set at work.
Two years ago when the Virginia City fire
took place Carsons hand was ready with purse
and bread and garments. The charity was
large, prompt, genuine, unostentatious, neigh
borlike We were a little on our pride, to be
sure, little nerved by an ambition to let the
Virginians know that, think what they might
have thought of US in the years gone by, we'd
show 'em that in an emergency like that we
were not such bad fellows after ALL There
was something of the heaping- of-coals of fire
business under it ala semi resentful charity
in fact. But maugre the motive, we did our
part sufficiently well to gain handsome &C.
knowledgement from the Virginia City folk
even if the Enterprise, in surprising pet,
last Winter, did spoil it all just because some
emotional citizens wanted to demonstrate their !
high disdain of the Bonanza Relief Bill and
it's supporters. We mention Carsons contri-
buttons to the relief of the burned out Vir- +
ginians simply to call the attention of our {
readers to what we can do when occasion re-
quires. Now distress is distress, whether it {
come from a fire or the want of the necessary =
fuel to make one. The causes of impoverish-
ment are not to be taken into consideration =
in the administering of relief All the CHART .
able mind needs to know, all it seeks to know, =
in fact, is that the helping hand is needed.
charity is not charity at all
it is the very uncharity of selfshness, preju-
lice and partiality. We are not going to pro-
pose how and when and where this Charitable b
Society. this Order of Nichodemus shall be e
organized. Something of our duty is done
when we have put the proposition before our
readers eyes. Get your organization perfec-
ed, advertise (Which you can do gratuitously
n the MORNING APPEAL) for contributions of n
lothing, money, provisions, ETC., have d.
headquarters somewhere central like, and this
Jotary's word for it, there will soon be not m
neagre store on hand of the things which pl
eep away the wolf and the wind and put B
cart in the pinched body of the unlucky and to
he downcast Speaking of tramps, there tn
eem to be some indubitable evidences of Or Ii
anization and discipline against labor, in the or
paternity. This is the worst phase of the NAL Sc
dy The chance that one is entertaining an co