Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-05-24

copyrighted by the Atlanta Constitution,
and reprinted by permission.l
Agoodmerchantw will count his money
and balance his cash at the close of
every day. 1t is a good plan for every
body to review the days work and
count up the good of it and the bad of
it. Give the Lord credit for all the
blessings enjoyed, not forgetting
health and food and raiment, sun
shine and shower, good neighbors and
good schools and liberty of conscience.
These are capital stock and do not
vary much with the passing days. But
in every ones daily life and in our daily
business there is an ever changing
multitude Of little things-little pleas
ures and little pains, and these should
be footed up and balanced. What good
have l done, what pleasure have re-
ceiyed and given to others to-day
should be question every night. For,
as the poet saith:
Count the day lost II the descending
Sees from thy hand no worthy action
done"
Lost" is a sad word-one day lost
shortens life that much, but how many
people lose almost every day. No char
ity, no kind words or pleasant smiles
no sympathy for the poor, but go
along through life for themselves only,
or perhaps muttering that selfish
prayer: Lord, bless me and my wife
my son John, and his wife, us four,
and no more" 1 verify believe that
selfishness is the most universal sin
of mankind. How is it possible for
very rich man to covet more when
there are thousands near him who live
and languish in misery and want /
cannot understand. 1t was sweet
lady who wrote the "Emigrants' La
ment," and said:
I'm very lonely now, Mary,
For the poor make no new friends,
But oh, they love the better far
The few our Father sends"
These millionaires deserve little
credit for their gifts to colleges and
libraries, while the poor are starving
in the great cities and are penned up
in garrets and novels and earning a
scanty living by working for the rich
l was Eliminating about this when l
read that Mr.. Holderby, that conse-
Grated minister in Atlanta, was get
ting up an ice fund for hepoor. What
blessing that will be to the tired
toilers who can only afford the tepid
water that comes from the city hy-
drants. How refreshing to the sick
who languish on hard beds and have no
comforts that the rich enjoy. The poor
we have always with us, and most of
them will suffer rather than beg. Mr..
Holderby is always doing good, and
can balance his books every night and
lie down to pleasant dreams. Educa-
ton is as good thing, and we are graft
fed at the recent movements of north
ern philanthropists, but a movement
to lift up the poor and give them a
chance would be more blessed thing
than to educate them in books. Peter
Cooper and George Peabody have a
higher seat in Heaven than Rockefeller
and Carnegie will ever reach. George
Peabody built whole blocks of tene-
ment houses in London for the poor.
The rooms were all ventilated and sup
piled with pure, cold water, and the
windows looked out upon grassy lawns
and flowers and shade trees. There
were bath rooms attached to every
tenement, and few pretty chromos
on the walls, and the rent charged
was only pittance-enough to make
repairs and pay the taxes. This was