The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-10
A NOBLE EXAMPLE.

The moral justification for the pos
session Of liberal means is found in the
good uses to which wealth, great or
modest, is put. The chief value Of
wealth indeed is found in capacity to
use it for good ends, and the promotion
of betternents for the human race.
1t has not been uncommon to make
surplus means serve memorial uses, by
paying tribute to the memory of the
loved dead This use has taken form in
the founding of hospitals, refugees, or
phanages, homes for the aged, schools
and universities large and small chart
ties, libraries museums Of art and nat
ural history, etc, each dedicated to hu-
man betterment and relief, in the name
of some one to whom the donor bore
close relation, and whose memory it
was thus desired to enshrine and per-
petuate
An instance of this memorial use of
money far nobler and more fitting than
the raising of cold marble, or the erec-
ton of costly tombs, and shafts Of
stone craven with records that must
fade, and chiseled with tributes that
must cruinble away. is just at hand in
this city, and deserves, because of its
unpretent:ous character and modest
worth, to command attention and serve,
as it assuredly will, as gentle sugges-
ton to others, to so disburse their sur
plus means as to honor themselves and
their fellow men, and make the possess
ion of wealth a perpetual fount of
blessing
Mr. and Mrs. A Bonnheim of this
city less than two years ago lost an
only son in the very flower of youth,
and just as he was stepping upon the
threshold of young manhood. In his
memory they have now created fund
to bear his name, the proceeds OF which
are to be devoted to promoting the ed
ucation of boys and girls between thir-
teen and nineteen years of age who are
so situated that without aid they can
not secure desired education. With a
breadth OF soul and charity of heart
standing loftily to their credit, they
have provided that neither religious
faith, color or racial descent, shall bar
any boy or girl from use of the fund.
Nor is its use to be limited to any par
ticular line of education, but whatever
study the boy or girl may wish to pur-
sue. and that in the judgment of the
guardians Of the fund he or she is fitted
to pursue IN that direction they shall
be aided.
Thus If a boy or girl has artistic drift
they may study art, If mechanical
tastes the boy may pursue study in a
chronological school, If he would be a
dentist, an apothecary, he may be aided
to attend schools of Dental Surgery or
Pharmacy. If the boy or gfl has a
bent for classical study they will be
aided to enter the Universities: if lad
wishes to make navigation the study OF
his life, he shall be helped on to that
end. and If he prefers commerce and
trade he may be sent to a commercial
and business school, and so on.
aside in testimony of the love for their
dead. is scme $4,000 to which they
propose to add money as they are able
and disposed. 1t is a modest sum, but
its dedication would not be a more no
Bile and pure spirited action If the fund
counted in the millions. 1t is as fine
an example to men and women of lib
eral means, as if the gift for the fund
Welded tens of thousands of dollars an
nually. At present this love fund will
produce some $500 a year and as it is
provided that not more than $500 shall
he given in one year for any one bene-
ficiary. and as $500 year will be ample
to support a deserving boy or girl
falong with their own labors) in almost
any line of education, it VIII be seen
that three boys or three girls can avail
of the beneficence of the fund, even in
IT'S present modest aggregate
It is the spirit. breadth and sincerity