Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1902-05-07
ARP ON ACCOUNTS.
Everybody Should Review the Days
Work at Close.
EACH DAY SHORTENS LlrL.
Kind Words, Charity and Pleasant
Smiles Should Be Bestowed If You
Want Happiness.

',s P'hNoSs
good merchant Will count his
money and balance his cash at the
cioSe OF every day. 1t is 4 good plan
Ior everybody to review the days work
ana count up the good of it and the
Dad OF it. Give the Lord credit for all
the blessings enjoyed. not forgetting
health and food and raiment, sunshine
ana shower. good neiglfbors and gcoi
schools and liberty of conscion"c.
lhese are capital stock and do not Wy
much with the passing days Bu. IN
every ones daily life and IN our daily
business there is an ever changing .i.ai-
utudc of little things-little pleasures
and little pains and these should b.
looted up ana balanced What .-oI
nave | done. what pleasure have ! re-
ceived and given to othors today should
be question every night. For as the
poet saith:
Count the day lost If the descending
sun
Sees from thy hand no worthy action
done"
Lost" is Il sad word-one day lest
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 bles me and my Yife-my son
John and his Wife. us four and no
more. verify believe that selfshncss
is the most universal sin OF mankind
How is it possible for very, rich man
N
ands near him who live and languish
in misery and want ca mot under
stand. 1t was n sweet lady who wrote
the .'Emigrants' Lament and said:
i m very lonely now, Mary,
For the poor make no n ew friends,
But on they love the better far
The few our Father sends"
These millionares deserve little cred
II for their gifts to colleges and libra
ries. while the poor are sthrving in the
great cities and are penned up in gar
rets and novels and earning a scanty
living by working for thA rich. | was
Illuminating about this whdn read that
Mr.. Holderby. the consecrated minister
IN Atlanta, was getting ub an ice fund
for the poor. What a blessing that Will
be TO the tired tolers whd can only af-
ford the tepid water that comes from
the city hydran;s. How tefreshing TO
the sick who languish OH hard beds
and have no comfort that the rich en-
JOY. The poor we have always with us
and poSt of them will suffer rather
than beg. Mr. Holderby IFS always do
ing good and can balanie his books
every night and lie downl to pleasant
dreams. Education is a golod thing and
we are gratified at the recent move
ments of northern philandhropists, iut
a movement to lift up tlbe poor and
give thom chance would be n more
blessed thing than to educate them in
books. Peter Cooper and George Pea
body have higher seat iu heaven than
Rockefeller and Carnegie will ever
reach. George Peabody ibailt whole
blocks OF tenement housds in London
for the poor. The rooms waere ali venti-
lated ana supplied with prure cold water
and the windows looked out upon
grassy lawns and fowersl and shade
trees There were bath ROBINS attached
10 every tenement, and h few pre-. "
chromos on the walls add the .ent
charged was only a pitthnce-enough
to make repairs and pay THE taxes. This
was doing more for the pbor than edu-
CdtOn cOuld GO.
clean shirt and comfortable home
will lift boy up quickef than books.
1t has been said that a right hungry
man can't get religion. anld | reckon
hungry child can't study TO do much
good. Education is not al ways had in
the schools. II is the life tork OF every
one. Education comes byt contact, by
absorption from others by reading ana
thinking. and by experiende and obser-
vation. Some of the greateEt men in the
United States never hAd a years
schooling; and my own | observation
has been that not more than ten coll
loge boys in a hundred made good use
of their education. They lived and died
and made no sign. But fob the sake of
the ten we must give the ninety
chance. These northern gdntlemen who
met in Athens seem intensely in earn
esi and their speeches " fre in good
ton and in good temper Judge Bleck-
lCy's speech was the shortest and best
of all. we will receive lit not as a
charity. but as a measure of Justice
ana Mr. Baldwin said. Yves, that's it,
justice" and | suppose implied that
they owed us a debt and were COINS 20
pay il. That came pretty dear being IN
apology. Well, just let tn fm shell ont
the money ana We Will dispense with
the apology
This morning had a backset. The
old mare got into my garden and tram
pied around ana wallowed in three p,a-
ccs-On my straw berry bed and on ny
SCu3.i, ned and onion he'd. lllgWll