Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1898 — PRACTICAL KINDNESS. [ARTICLE]

PRACTICAL KINDNESS.

One Hundred Thousand Grateful Soldiers. These war times have tried men’s souls in many unexpected ways, but like a shaft of sunshine and good cheer out of the cloud of privation and endurance has been the work that The Americar. Tobacco Co. has done among the U. S. soldiers and sailors ever since the wr.r began—for when discovered that the camps and hospitals were not supplied with tobacco they decided to provide them, free of cost, with enough for every maa, and have already given outright to our soldiers and sailors over one hundred thousand pounds of “Battle Ax Plug” and “Duke’s Mixture” Smoking Tobacco, and have bought and distributed fifty thousand briar wood pipes, at a total 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.” Perhaps it will be only fair to remember when we hear the remark again that “corporations have no souls,” that there is one American corporation whose soul has been tried and has not been found wanting in “practical kinduess.”