The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-13
The Friend Of :"Bums. "

day. and left u gap behind him very diff
cult to fill. His name was Samuel Hopkins
Hadley,.n for twenty years he had given
his life to the work of the Jerry McAuley
Mission, helping poor outcasts whom no.
body else seemed to care about helping.
The mission was on his mind to the
last. my poor buns" he said just
look after them?"
Possibly the reason that Mr.. TTadley
understood so we'll how to help those
who had managed to get trampled under
was that he had once been pretty fa.
under himself AS boy. he had prom
ised his mother that he would never
drink. but unfortunate early associates
led to the breaking of that promise
In his autobiographical book. .Down in
Water Street" he tells how he became q
professional gambler, and for fifteen years
rarely went to bed sober. Gradually
slipping more and more irrevocably into
the clutches of drink, he was strength
ened to fight off recurring temptation
to suicide only by the steady influence
of his wife. One night, in April. 1882,
sitting in a saloon in Harlem, "a home
less, frlendess, dying drunkard.' he was
suddenly seized with n mighty impulse
to pull himself together. He walked to
the bar, pounded 1T till the glasses ratified.
and swore that he would never drink
no ir IN 1ic1 n OF Ha1lpv
kept that promise, though he had to
spend the first night in the lookup to do
so. a few days later he was at the
Water Street Mission, asking Jerry Nc
Auley to pray for him. All the prayers
in the world won't save YOU" answered
Jerry. unless you pray for yourself
Mr.. Hadley learned to pray for himself,
and four years later he succeeded Nc
Auley us superintendent of the mission.
During the twenty years of his superin-
tendency, 5000 persons have declared for
a better way of living. Coticeding even
the fullest proportion of hacksliders, the
good that he Accomplishment was intalcula-
bic. Hadley's principle was to give help
without cost. and never to weary of well
doing. 1t was simply impossible to wear
out his kindness, however sorely it was
abused. Ex-convicts came to him and got
shelter. food and clothes. Not infre-
quently one of them would decamp with
whatever portable objects he could lay
his hands on. Sooner or later, however,,
the need for help would drive him back.
''On his RETURN wrote Mr.. Hadley, The
is met with the same welcome, the same
kindness. Again and again he may show
the cloven foot. but at last lie finds that
in the old McAuley Mission there is 4
stock of love that cannot be exhausted
1t is no wonder that, as a usual thing,
the tough heart of the criminal is finally
broken by The glorious principle of love-"
No wonder, indeed. Few missions or
other church organizations of any sort
have exhibited SO single-minded and I'M
wearying desire to do good as that.
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Agent Z. c. Taylor, of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
recently discovered two horses which,
by the confession of the two negroes
who owned them, had not had feed for
a week. The poor brutes had eaten up ALI
the available wood in the stable, and were
so weak that they could hardly stand.
Yet the burden of sustaining tho Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
rests upon few humane citizens. The
society deserves better support from the
general public.
Mrs. Frances Graham, prcsdentess of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. says that sit Is none OF the wo-
mans Christian Temperance Unions
business" whether or not wine is to be
served at tho Roosevelt nuptials. This
Is believed to be the first time on record
that tho Woman's Christian Temperance
Union has admitted that anything relat-
ing to wine-bibbing was not its business.
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New York had an explosion OF gas
the other day that shook u whole block.
In Washington they have em that shake
n whole country. But. then, gas has
always been cheaper in Washington.
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Stronger and stronger reasons are grad
ually coming to light why Andy Hamil-
tons physicians Insist that lie should
continue his residence in Paris.
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Still, it's a blessing to know that you
live in u country where anybody can
have a pension who'll take the trouble
TO drop 'em postal.
We have communication from cola
Subscriber" on Grove Avenue improve
mcnts. We will publish 1t II he will send
us his name.
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The case OF Judge Hamilton demon-
strates how easily man can take long
green to Paris without taking Paris green
along. a.
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Comparatively few have been called to