Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-01-03
DO GOOD FOR GOODS SAKE.


Hearst's Chicago American.
We ought to do good tor goods sake-not
with any idea of payment or reward.
If we are miserable, we ought to feel so sorry
for others that our first impulse is to do some
thing which helps to make them less miserable
than we are.
If we are happy, we should do good out of
mere gratitude to life for our blessings.
Yet, there are people to whom no appeal can
be made which will reach their hearts save it is
sent through the Channel of Self Gain!
Now, believe in reaching peoples hearts,
no matter by what source.
The main thing is 10 get there. To all such
people, then, let me speak this absolute truth:
The man who helps otheis will always be
helped in an hour of need--some way, some
where, some tme--the man who gives will re-
ceive.
To give to those who have less than you is
to plant money in good soil.
1t will grow to harvest. Of couise, if you
give with this idea uppermost, it will sterilize
the seed.
But make this suggestion, hoping that ON
this especial occasion some heretofore Saving"
natures may be led to give, no matter for what
purpose, and that the new experience may
prove so interesting that their hearts will be
moved afterward to keep on giving, where they
see the need, for the mere sake of doing good.
Once the heart is stirred with genuine SYM
pathy, great current of good luck is set in
motion, which shall bring back TO the gver ten
fold what he sent forth.
careless, indiscriminate alms-giving. 1t is an
evil to all save the giver, who, if his heart was
moved with genuine helpful impulses, is no
loser.
Think how we suffer and pity ourselves if
our feet get cold or our hands and noses when
we are temporarily away from our warm homes.
Think how fretful and impatient we become
if our cooks are late with our dinner or the
waiter at a hotel is slow in bringing our order
when we ale hungry.
Then imagine what 1t would be to feel cold
day and night and be hungry most of the time.
There are many people in this great city who
have not been really warm since winter set in,
or once we'll fed.
Help them. Meanwhile, hope the drivers
OF express wagons will be remembered by peo-
pie this week. Few of us realize the awful
strain put upon these men at this season of the
wear. If hotels and apartment houses would
serve hot coffee to the expressmen this week, 1t
would be a nice little Christian courtesy and
would keep them out of saloons to great de-
gree.
Then I wish the drivers all over the city
would remember that their horses suffer in the
cold as we'll as themselves. Don't forget to
blanket them when they stand, and don't scream
at them because you are tired and overworked.
So are they. And when the streets are slippery,
have your horses sharp-shod. The poor things
are terrified with the fear of falling. Get down
and lead them when you can over such places,
instead Of beating them.
/ hope housekeepers will tell their cooks to
throw out an occasional bone or scrap of meat
to the poor tramp cats who have no Chicago
American to look after their interests.
These animals are warmth-loving and home
loving creatures. They suffer inexpressitly
when forced to be trainps.
Relieve suffering whenever you can, at all
times. ELLA WHEELER Wilcox.
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