Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — PRACTICAL KINDNESS. [ARTICLE]

PRACTICAL KINDNESS.

Oae Hundred Thousand Grateful 6*l- - These war times have tried men’s souls in many unexpected ways, but like a shaft of sunshine and good cheer pot of the cloud of privation and endurance has been the work that The American Tobacco Co. has done among the U. S. soldiers and)' sailors ever since the war began—for" when they discovered that the camps and. hospitals were not supplied with tobacco they decided to provide them, free of cost, with enough for every man, and have already given outright to our soldiers and sailors over one hundred thousand pounds: of “Battle Ax Plug” and “Dnke’a Mixture” Smoking Tobacco, and have bought and distributed fitly thousand briar wgod pipes, at hjotal cost of between fifty and sixty thousand dollars. This work has been done quietly and thoroughly, by establishing headquarters in each camp so that every camp and every hospital of the United States army has been supplied with enough tobacco for every man and the sailors on thirty United States ships in Cuban waters have shared with the soldiers this most welcome of all “rations,” o Perhaps it will be only fair to remember when we hear the remark again that “corporations hate no souls,” that there is one American corporation whose soul has been tried and has not been found wanting in “practical kindness.”