Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-03
GOOD DEEDS IN A NAUGHTY
 WORLD.

How the Carpenters and Bricklayers
 Helped Frank Seveek.
 From the Chicago Tribunel
 The cynics and pessimists must pause in their clamor against the baseness, hollow heartedness, and ingratitude of this wicked and inhospitable world, as they consider the episode in the life of MT. Frank Sevcek. Prior to the hard storm of last month MT. Sevcek, Bohemian laborer, was wholly un' known to fame. Few beyond his immediate neighbors had ever known or heard of him, and but for that storm he might have re- nained, as he always had been, mere unit in the vast population of Chicago, of no i'm portance to any one save the the little fam I fly dependent upon him. When the furious gale, however, blew down and demolished ! his home it became known from the news paper reports that Sevcek had been an indus trious, economical, and frugal unit, that the pile of ruins represented the savings of years of hard labor, and that he had nothing left | with which to make home.
 1t was at this juncture that generosity and human kindness, the claims of human brotherhood, the prompt recognition of a fellow-being in distress, appeared to silence the complaints of the pessimists. For what
 did the carpenters do one Sunday but swarm toward restoring the little cottage, under the direction of the building inspectors of the
 oity. And what did the bricklayers do the next Sunday but gather in force and dc
 their part of the worki And last Sunday
 what did carpenters and brioklayers do but
 como together to finish up their worka And
 as Sunday was the only day they could
 spare from their own toll, would not the
 sternest old Puritan have forgiven them fol
 this generous and fraternal violation of tht
 Sabbath Nay, more, would he not have
 gone to the dinner which the good womer
 of the neighborhood provided for the work men, and mayhap have drank their healtf kin tankard of the beer which the brewer
 50 generously provided, for it was hot work Sunday restoring Brother Sevcek's house particularly as they thought of the cool spot , had not charity imposed her mission upel , themi
 Fl And then, when the workmen had finished their Sunday job and the children of tn humble neighborhood came, bringing flower : to adoru it, would not the stern old Puritan who was naturally averse to floral display o decoration of any kind, have been reused b ! the sight of this good deed to bless the me- who gave the lumber, boards, laths, shingles ? | bricks, sand, and lime, and the fellows who's
 stout arms had wrought them together untl Brother Sevceks cottage stood eonfesse again ready, as soon as it is dry, for him an his family to move in and start again just a befores
 And yet, not just as before, for Mir Seycek, feeling that she should do some : thing to celebrate the bright and beautifr 7 episode in her husbands life, what does sh : do, while the carpenters and bricklayel ! | were at work and the children were COT , l secrating 1t with their foweIs, but pre vide him with new boy, so that they vi 20 into the new house with male quin l. tette The Sevceks are obscure people h The new house is little one. The peopl
 who have built it are not famous, but D more beautiful or charitable deed ever illu # minated this world. It should silence tn d pessimists.