The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-05-15
BILL ARP'S LETTER
Barlow Man Advises That We
Review Each Days Work.
A STRICT ACCOUNT SHOULD BE KEPT
Each Day Shortens Our Existence and
None Should be Allowed to Pass
Without Some Good Deed
Done or Word Spoken.

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ey and balance his cash at the close
Of every day. 1t is d good plan for
everybody 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 the 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 pleasures and little pains and
these should be footed up and bal
anced What good have l done, what
pleasure have l received and given
to others today should be the Ques-
ton every night. For the poet saith:
Count that day lost if the descending
sun
Views 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
charity, no kind words or pleasant
smiles-no sympathy for the poor, but
so along through life for themselves
only, or perhaps muttering that self
ish prayer, Lord, bless me and my
wife, my son John and his wife, us
four and no more | verify believe
that selfshness 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 anguish in misery and want,
cannot understand. 1t was a sweet
lady who wrote the Immigrants La
ment," and said:
I'm very lonely row, 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 Ii.
bTaries, while the poor are starving
in the great cities and are penned up
in garrets and novels and earning
scanty living by working for the ruch
was Illuminating about this y~len l
read that Mr.. Holderby, that consecra-
ted minister n Atlanta, was getting up
an ice fund for the poor What
blessing that will be to the tired toilers
who can only afford the tepid water
that comes from the city hydrants.
How refreshing to the sick who Ian
guish on hard beds and have no COM
forts 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. Ed
ucation is a good thing and We are
gratified at the recent movements Of
northern philanthropists, but move
ment to lift up the poor and give them
a chance would be a 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 tenement houses in London
for the poor. The rooms were all ven
tilated and supplied with pure cold
water and the windows looked out up
on grassy lawns and flowers and shade
trees. There were bath rooms attach
ed to every tenement, and few pretty
chromos on the walls and the rent
charged was only a pittance-enough
to make repairs and pay the taxes.
This was doing more for the poor
than education could do
A clean shirt and comfortable
home will lift a boy up quicker than
books. 1t has been said that right
hungry man can't get religion, and |
reckon a hungry child can't study to
do much good. Education is not al
ways had in the schools. 1t is the life
work of every one. Education comes
by contact, by absorption from others,
by reading and thinking, and by expe-
rience and observation. Some Of the
greatest men in the United States new
er had a years schooling; and my own
observation has been that not more
than ten college boys in a hundred
make good use of their education. They
lived and died and made no sign. But
for the sake of the ten we must give
the ninety a chance. The northern
gentlemen who met in Athens seem
intensely in earnest and their speeches
were in good tone and in good temper.
Judge Bleckley's speech was the short
est and best of ell. 1--WE will receive
it, not as a charity, but as a measure
OF justice" and Mr.. Baldwin said,
Eyes, sir, that's it, justice and sup
pose implied that they owed us debt
and were going to pay it. That came
pretty near being an apology. Well,
Just let them shell out the money, and