organizations."

The business man forgets, as do many of us, the truth expressed by
Ruskin, that "a little thought and a little kindness are often
worth more than a great deal of money." A few kind words, a little
sympathy and encouragement have often brought sunshine and hope
into the lives of men and women who were on the verge of despair.

The great demand is on people's hearts rather than on their
purses. In the matter of kindness we can all afford to be generous
whether we have money or not. The schoolboy may give it as freely
as the millionaire. No one is so driven by work that he has not
time, now and then, to say a kind word or do a kind deed that will
help to brighten life for another. If the prime minister of
England, William E. Gladstone, could find time to carry a bunch of
flowers to a little sick crossing-sweeper, shall we not be ashamed
to make for ourselves the excuse, "I haven't time to be kind"?





A TRIBUNE OF THE PEOPLE


Clad in a homespun tow shirt, shrunken, butternut-colored,
linsey-woolsey pantaloons, battered straw hat, and much-mended
jacket and shoes, with ten dollars in his pocket, and all his
other worldly goods packed in the bundle he carried on his back,
Horace Greeley, the future founder of the New York Tribune,