The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-03-30


fewer good deeds done if every one
had chart OF the beneficiaries
heR1ts. OF course we are taught to
do good for the sake of good itself
and are wen aware those OF us who
are not agans-fhat the eternal re-
ward is to be conferred some time
upon those who yield unseldsh min
iatrations to Gods poor. But our
very education from childhood in
dulges that instinct to be good be-
cause So that when we have
done what we consider a trife more
than our duty although when we
arc hard pressed we admit TO our
pastors and spiritual masters that
the needy are really our charges and
the main spiritual test of our chari-
ty, We are never quite ready to ae-
cepf the rebuH of thanklessness and
lngratitude that is usually the por-
ton OF the Welldoer. Perhaps there
as the charitable man or woman
the being to whom absolute stran-
gers repair with their request for
advices. moneys, eustenance. There
50 no salary attached to this civil
martyr. but his time is employed
just as though there were. with 9TH
er unsatisfactory conditions attach
ed 70 the Office.
If the charitable man or woman
who has been so unfortunate as to
weaf the reputation he on she has
earned declines to assist polite
beggars he may count upon vituper
alton and an injured reputation
within the 8 'ennig It which points
moral to all benefactors, not to let
the right hand know, etc, and im-
press upon your friends that you
are not so good as you're painted
any reports originated by the recip
tents of your good deeds.
This little preamble was inspired
by several stories that have come
TO the writer direct from one of the.
nob1est women OF God S fashioning,
whose life is devoted to the pur-
auance of all good. For some months
she has been infermedi ary in a little
matter of IS which worthy indis
xidual instructed her to place each.
month where 1T would domost good.
There had been for some time ON her
hands woman with several chill
dxen and sick mother; so she APP
propriated the money to their use,
that amount paying their rent AS
usual, last month, Miss S mailed
the $5 to the woman, but TO her sur
prise received call few days later
from this beneficiary, requesting
the usual stipend. Miss So was
surprised. and told the woman that
as usual she had posted the amount.
( It's very strange, replied the in
crate, because should have re-
ceived it il you had mailed it. i
think you must be mistaken. Miss
So assured her that she had done
SO. Well, I've moved since last
month, but left word to have any
letters forwarded to me- and they
would certainly have done so had.
( you sent me that money. think
that person who gives you the mon
ey for me ought to know about 1t. -
Miss s almost choked with NOR
ca but efooIishly enoughl
gave her So bill, which She could
Ill AFFORD, and told her she would.
look into the other matter. Tho let
Ter Was 1Ounu AT the postO1lc9 anu
delivered by the postman with an
explanation, whereupon the woman
called again upon her best friend.
II ann glad the money was traced, y
she said, because it raises all sus-
picion against yourself. As 10 that
So bill of yours, Isneeded something,
so had 1T broken, but here is what
is left The astonished Miss S..
saw the woman deposit the change
ON the table and walk out New
Orleans Times Democrat.