The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-05-11

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and balance his cash at the close of every
uay. IL is a good plan for everybody To
review the days work and count up the
good of it and ,ha nad OF it, Give the
Lord credit for all the blessings enjoyed.
rot forgetting health and food and raj
ment, sunshine AMI shower. good neigh
tors and good schools ana liberty of con-
science. These are capital stock and 10
not vary much with the passing days. But
In every ones daily life and in our daily
business there is an ever changing multi
tude of little things--little pleasures and
little pains and these should be footed up
ana balanced What good have l done
what pleasure have | received and given
TO Others today should be a 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 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 go along
through life for themselves only, or per-
haps muttering that selfish prayer. Lord
bless me and my wife-my son John and
his wife. us four and no more" | verify
believe that selfishness is the most uni
versal sin of mankind. How it is possible
for very rich man to covet more when
there are thousands near him who live
and languish in misery and want | can
not understand. 1t was sweet lady who
wrote the "Emigrant's Lament and
Siad:
I'm very lonely now Mary,
For the poor make no now 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 galrots ana
novels and earning q scanty living by
working for the rich. l was Illuminating
about this when / read that Mr.. Holder
by, that consecrated minister in Atlanta.
vas getting mp an ice fund for the poor.
What blessing that will hn to the tired
toilers who can only afford the tepid va
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 aTffe:
rather than beg. Mr.. Holderby is always
doing good and can balance his books
every night and lie down 20 pleasant
dreams Education is good hing and
we are gratifed a the receny movements
81 NH I, rt,,,O isf- hnt n
ment to lift up the poor and give them n
chance would be Il moe blessed hing
than to educate them in books. Pete"
Cooper and George PEABODY have high
e- seat in heaven than Rockefeller and
Carnegie will ever reach. George Peabody
putt whole blocks of tenement houses in
London for the poor. The rooms were ali
ventilated and supplied with pure cold
water and the windows looked out upon
grassy lawns and flowers ana shade trees.
There were bath rooms attached TO every
tenement, and a few pretty chromos on
the walls and the rent charged was only
a pittance-enough to mahe repairs and
pay the taxes. This was doing more
fol the poor than education could 10.
A clean shirt and comfortable home
will lift boy up quicker than books. Ii
has been said that a right hungry man
can't get religion and reckon a nun
cry child can't study to do much good
Education is not always had in the
schools. 1t is the life work of every one
Education comes by contact, by absorb
ton from others, by reading and think
ing, and by experience and observation
Some of the greatest men in the United
States never had years schooling; and
my own observation has been that not
more than ten college boys in hundred
made good use of heir education. They
lived and died and made no sign. But
for the sake of the ten We must give the
ninety a chance. These Northern gentle
men who met in Athens seem intensely
in earnest and their speeches were II
good tone and in good temper. Judge
Bleckleys speech was the shortest anc
best of ALL 1--WE will receive it not as
charity. but as a measure of justice
and MIR Baldwin said Yes, that II
Justice" and / suppose implied that they
owed us debt and were going to pay 1t
That came pretty near being an apology
Well Just let them shell out the money
and we will dispense with the apology.
This morning / had a backset. The
old mare got into my garden and tramped
around and wallowed in three places-on
my strawberry bed and on my squash
bed and onion bed. Digging wouldn' t
pacify me. 1t didn't let my choler down.
| will set that down at one hundred on
the debit side. But my daughter, who
went to Charleston and had two weeks
vacation from the care OF her children,
returned safe and happy and refreshed.
| set that down at one hundred to bal
ance off the old mares trespass on my
garden. Another married daughter who
has been sick for a month, has recovered
and can now take up her bed and walk.
She came up to spend the day and
brought her children. Put that down at
two hundred. A dear sister who lives at
College Park is coming to see us tomor-
row. That news is worth a credit OF
fifty. The mail has brought good. cheer
full letters from two of the far-away
boys. That is worth fifty. a good neigh
Dor sent me some fine tomato plants;
that is twenty-five; and it is worth TWEEN
tyfve to look at my strawberry garden
and | look several times a day. A visit
ing friend said it was worth twenty-fiv
a day to see the long trains go by with
their double engines. | can sit on my
veranda and count the cars. from forty