The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1907-08-02
I'm his NAME"
DO THEY WORK
Were Being Cared Fer BY a Grateful
Negro.
From Times-Union. ]

From Times-Union.
Penniless, her only shelter for herself
and little baby given by grateful ne
gro, her husband away at his work on
one of the boats plying up and down
the river, one destitute white woman Of
Jacksonville founa, as 50 many others
have found, relief and help and minis
tering aid in the Salvation Army.
And the first work Of the Salvation
Army ice wagon was that of an ambu.
lance, for it carried the sickly mother
and the sicklier infant away from the
negro cabin to q better place of shell
ter, and then, hurTying off on its sec
ond errand of mercy, came back again
with ice and medicine and food.
1t was another little heart-story that
came to light, all unexpectedly, as En-
sign A. H. Paul was pushing his work
among the destitute of the city. 1t
proved that all the prOvcrty is not, af-
ter all, IN New York and the great cit
les of the North and East And it
proved furthermore, that the same
power that saves them there is quietly,
unostentatiously but effectively, carry
ing out its mission here.
A woRLD-oLD STORY.
It was a world-old story, a tale as
ancient as the cities and as humanity,
that was told Ensign Paul when, MAX
ing his rounds through the poorest Sec
tions of the city, his attention was at
tracted by the pale, anaemic face of a
white woman, peering from the little
window Of q negro cabin.
He entered and asked her. as she sat
there grooming some old song over a
sickIy infant, fretting and suffering
from the heat, what it all meant, and
the wOrld-old story was told She and
her husband, a laboring man and no
shirker of work, had lived happily UNI
til sickness came to him. And illness lin
gered, wages stopped. place was lost,
and the little fund that had been laid
aside while he and she dreamed of the
future of little baby boy, only few
weeks old then, dwindled into nothing
ness.
The husband, half frantic, made every
search for work and finally found It on
one Of the river boats. The income
was small, the work meant long alb
sence from home, but IL brought In
enough to insure a little food, a little
sustenance until something better 1hould
be secured
GRATITUDE OF NEGRO.
But il could not meet the rents of
even the humblest of the little cottages
that dot the poorer sections Of the city.
Shelter must be had some way, and
then, just as the problem seemed insol-
uble, the answer came.
A year or more before, when the
world had been smili ng a bit more Kind
ly upon him, the husband had extended
a kindness to negro, one of the old
school negroes. II had been but lit
tie, as the world looks at such things,
yet to the negro it had been princely
gift. And he had not forgotten it.
Money he did not have and could not
give. But he did have little home, a
little place of shelter. The wife and
her baby could come there, while the
husband was away. She would be safe,
alone, and everything that the old ne
gro could supply would be given
her
And the husband, no other way open,
took his wife there and left
her. She was given little room in the
cabin as her own, and the best that the
negro could do was done tor her.
TO NEW QUARTERS.
When she had finished her story to
the ensign, and had cried q little bit
when his warm sympathy touched her
heavy heart, the woman told him of her
hopes, built on the wages her husband
would earn on his river trip. She knew
not how close at hand aid was.
Ensign Paul stepped out and, in a
brief half-hour thereafter, the new
wagon, purchased during the latter part
Of last week, was at the door Of the
little cabin. The mother and child were
made comfortable within it, and then
driven TO another part Of the city where
At the expense Of the Salvation Army,
new quarters were given them, a place
Of shelter provided until her husband
shall be able to again secure more re-
work and again take them
under his own care,
IL was the first errand of mercy of
the new wagon, yet it was a wonderful
ICE WAGON SERVICE.
The Salvation Army penny ice wagon
service begins in earnest today, and the
relief this will bring 90 poverty-stricken
homes where sickness and suferinRs
are, TO mothers with new born infants
struggling 10 exist through the long