The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-12-01
CHARlTY'S SAKE.
The Pupils Of the Public School
Make Their Thanksgiving
Offering a Liberal One.
MANY FAMILIES MADE HAPPY.
Food to Eat and Clothes TO Wear for
Those Upon Whom Fortune
Has Not Smiled.

Food to Eat II Clothes 10 wear lOf
Those Upon Whom Fortune
Has Not Smiled.
The poor we have with us always.
Fortune has not smiled upon the whole
human family. Around us and all. about
US we can behold the misfortunes of some
oil our fellows.
To meet the emergencies of the poverts
stricken, there is implante in the human
heart the great virtue OF charity.
In his world there is plenty for us all.
No necessity for men and women to die
Of starvation. No reason why those more
should permit any one to go
hungry. or cold.
The world contains its poor and its rich.
The virtue of the good Samaritan olives
on" There are more good people on
earth than bad ones. There are enough
rich to take care Of the poor.
However, all the exigencies and ~necessi-
ties of poverty are not provided for. Pow
erty sometimes dons the smile of prosper
ity; il hides itself often as the thief in the
night, and aPpar n plenty -turus out
often to be abject poverty. Pride, which
We are told goes before destruction often
forces man to suffer before he makes his
necessities and misfortunes known to the
outside world. Poverty is sometimes a
disgrace. There are two kinds of poverty,
one that shonld be solved with charity
the other should come before the law.
Honest poverty, unavoidable poverty is
no disgrace. Misfortunes come to many
and oftentimes in striving to win an hon
ored place among men, accidents befall
and misfortune comes, to take the place
Of much desired prosperity. Poverty
often finds lis victim old and decrepid,
often eropes with 1t until from physical
or mental disability It is unable to rally
to smiles of plenty. There is another
kind Of poverty, however, that is dishon-
est. The man who can and won't work,
e not an object Of charity. He may be
poor, but unlsss he strives to succeed, he
forfsits his right to the assistance of those
around him, not only to the assistance
but also 10 the respect and good will.
Charity We read 10 the nobiest Of virtues.
Thea hog appropriate. that it should. be
taught 70 the youth Of tender years. The
Lesson 70 sublime, should be taught in in
fancy and practiced to the end of life.
How fitting was It that Prof. Demand
and his eorpse q sbls assistants Of the pub
lie schools, should bring on last Thursday.
before the young boys and girls entrusted
70 their guardianship, their duty to the
poor unfortunate around them.
It va. . great lesson to b boys and
girls and one that they will long remem-
ber-their Thanksgiving offering to the
poor.
Prof. Demand announced a half holiday
for the pupils on Wednesday and asked
them all TO bring to the school building
in the afternoon something for the poor.
All OF them were asked to make an
offering, and were assured that the mite
would recsive due appreciation. During
the delivery of these articles at the High
school building an INTELLIaENcER re-
porter called TO view the scene. 1t was q
grand one. Little children, queenly
young ladies, manly boys all came with
their presents. They varied in material
but, all Of them were useful.
Prof. Demand and the faculty had hunt
cd up all the needy families in town that
they could learn of and found seventeen
to be In AFFECT poverty. When the dona-
tions were all In they were classified and
divided into II parts and sent to theil
homes, to brighten. and to better them.
The public school officials deserve much
credit for the undertaking which wassc
SUCCESSFULLY carried ont. Besides the
Lesson 10 taught the children, it was Of
much bepedt, TO the poor, and allayed
much misery and sorrow. We print
below q list OF those things that were
dohatsd. This list speaks for its own
good work.rand tho good work OF the
Flour. - sacks; coffee, 35pounds; bread
70 loaves; potatoes. Is bushel; apples II
bushei; turnips, 8 bushel; chickens. g.
canned fruit and preserves. 90 cans; cab
tbaee. 20 beads; sugar, l5 packages; onions
5 bushel; yinsgar.2 gallons; tea 10 pounds
oat meal, 8 packages; salt, 8 packages
bacon and beef, 8 bundles; sweet potatoes
Q buihsf; dried fruit. 10 packages; pump
ktns, -; pies, 10; oysters s cans; carrots
n hsshsl; meal 5 sacks; baking powder.
cans; dried beans. Y packages; soap
cakes; turkeys, 2; cakes, a; clothing, 1ft
pieces.