Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1881 — One Good Deed. [ARTICLE]

One Good Deed.

Bill Poole, of New York, sport and pugilist, was not a model man. He did not pretend to be, and while so pretending, rob his fellows. He had some generous traits which may be reckoned up hereafter. It U related of him that one ihaßksglvlng day, just before he was killed, he came to a marketman’s sta d and putting donfo SIOO said: “Send chickens ana turkeys for that amount to the charities.” “You can’t have all of this,” the dealer replied; “we mean to have a hand in.” The result was the poultry dealers of the market clubbed together, and the next (fey all the principal charities of New York received turkeys and chickens without stint. Bill Poole’s SIQO was only a drop in the bucket, but it was the drop that filled it. Since that time Wash!ngton market has contributed tonsofpoul try and meat to the charities of the city, and has organized a system that aids materially in the efforts of the charitable to make at least one day of the year a pleasant and a.happy one to tne unfortunate. This shows how one good action often impels many, and it demonstrates too that, among the outcast of the earth there is often a flicker of the divine spark that redeems them from total depravity.

Dr. Isidd. who was Lord BeaconsAeld’s regular physician, has the largest regular praotioe in London, and is an eclectic, With the of this gentlemen, it is a ourious circumstance that all around the bedside of the dying ex-premier—Dr. Quain, ¥** Burrington, I*ord Rowton, James MoClennan, his servant, ana the two nurses were Irish, “the sentimental and self-sacrificing race,” as he has styled them. ’