The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-05-20
HOW TODD THE RIGHT
BEGIN WITHIN THE PRECINCTS
OF HOME.
Story OF the Man Who Made q New
Years Resolutlon-Started Out by
Joining "Grafting" Clubs and Wound
Up with . So-oaled Anarchist.

The Chicago Advance, the organ of
the Congregational church, gives space
to an article which has a world OF
good sense in 1t. 1t reads as follows:
The new year had come, and he re-
solved to do good He had heard it
preached, and he lad heard it talked
about in prayer meeting, and all other
religious meetings which he had ever
attended. 1t had been ringing in his
ears all his life, and now he was going
to do good. He spoke to some OF the
other members Of the church about 1t
and invited them to join the band,
members who like himself had been
In the habit of admitting pulpit mes
sages at one ear and politely dismiss
ing them at the other. But they shrug-
ged their shoulders, and remarked that
some things were better for prayer
meeting expression than for practical
purposes. What is correct sentiment
is not always convenient you know.
AS a sentiment doing good is time
honored, familiar and fine but
However he had set out to do good,
and he was going to do it. He soon
had chance, for the annual meeting
came a few evenings later, and there
was move to raise the pastors salary.
He put his shoulder to the wheel and
gave it boost He was doing good.
The next summer the pastor went to
Europe and came back looking re-
frQGhad CT OF
looked a little tired. But he was do
ing good. Then they raised more
money to have better music to draw
more people to raise more money to
get bigger minister to build a big
ger church to draw more people; and
he kept up with the procession. He
was doing good. But sometimes he
sighed
Then he Joined a mutual benevolent
society, and he met with the rest OF
the members for mutual admiration.
He was doing good. He paid his dues
like q man, but when the members
began to die the society went to pieces,
and he quit He was doing good.
He met tramp on the street who
begged for money. He gave it, and
followed the tramp around the corner
where he went into a saloon. He was
doing good-to the saloon-keeper. He
went to the primary election to help
purify politics and voted a ticket
which the gang had fixed up in a back
room the night before. There was moth
Ing else for him to vote He was doing
good. He gave money to help elect a
good, honest alderman, and six months
later he was sitting UP at night, along
with other good. citizens, to keep the
fellow from stealing the streets of the
city. He was doing good. He helped
send another honest man to the leg
islature and then helped to send
delegation to the state capital to keep
him from selling out, bag and baggage.
He was doing good.
He gave thousand dollars to a col
lege to promote higher education, and
the students dislocated his boys
shoulder, broke his leg and smashed
three fingers, at a game of football. He
was doing good. He helped organize
social club to keep his neighbors
from going to worse places, and to
make safe resort for young men; and
| the members drank wine and beer, and
| in clouds Of tobacco smoke cracked
! Jokes at religion and at other men who
were too pious to leave the prayer
meeting for the club. He was doing
good, but he was getting very tired.
He thought about it through the
night, and in the morning he got up
with a change of plan. He was going
to try doing good nearer home. He
spoke kindly to his boys, asked after
their lessons, patted the little girl on
the head, and looked sweet at his wife
across the table. The poor woman
smiled, but looked troubled. She was
afraid that he was not going to live
long. He came home earlier that
evening and stayed at home. He was
taking some interest in his family now.
He remarked that it was the first
great human institution in the world,
before the state and the church, and
that IL was likely to be the last in
heaven. where all are at home in their
Fathers house.
Then he went to hear Mayor Jones
Of Toledo, Mayor Jones is trying to
do good in his business, and as he was
trying to do good nearer home, he took
notes. Mayor Jones had some AN
archistic" ideas, but he jotted them
all down. The mayor was paying his
employees higher wages than he could
hire them for in the market. He had
.et nm the Golden Rule in his factory.
At Christmas he wrote each man a
letter and sent him an extra check.
He took his people down the river on
an excursion and invited them to
parties at his big house. He made
them a park, put in seats and swings.
and did not say: Keep OF the grass. .
He furnished music and made every
body happy. and made money too. And
the people made him mayor. He even
had the hardihood to say that success
ful men ought not to want the earth,
and that Christian business men could
do the things which Christ COM
manded.
But what troubled him was that
Mayor Jones Is considered q crank and
an anarchist. II q man works a COM
4 r,..xs~r uabes millions and marrioe