Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-09-27
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OCCUPATIONS.


The following excellent remarks from
the Waverly Magazine, are so strongly
characterized with good sense and practical
every day applications, we have at once
set them down as sound doctrine: .a# Il.
There IS most radical error pervading
society at the present in regard to plain,
honest, hardy industry. A greater or more
foolish mistake never associated itself with
the popular preiddices, than that it is the
nature of his aeocation that gives character
and dignity 10 the man. For our part, we
should be sadly puzzled to discover the
distinction between any two Of the varied
occupations which employ the industry of
man, that would raise the operative in the
one case above the one in the other. One
occupation is precisely as crcdtable in
itself, and as commcndabe to lis industri-
Gus pursuer as another, provided it be
honorable, and i'll perfect harmony with
the laws of God and man. 1t is the man
that ennobles the occupation--not the oc-
cupation that dignilies the man. It's well
that We are not all fitted, by habit, educa-
ton, and taste, for the same avocation.-
However, those natural divisions are bv
no means distinctions. 1t is this diversity
of TASTE, together with good and whole
some laws and regulations, that harmonize
this vast workshop of intricate industry,
the world. Without This diversity, all
would be riot and confusion, and physical
power alone would repay the benefits of
laoor. As ii is, the weak and strong have
each their several and appropriate allot-
mcnts.
The man who follows in the wake OF
the plowshare, in his striped frock, and
with bronzed and toughened hand, plants
his seod-thc man with smutty face and
leather apron, who. with strong and vgor-
Gus slneWs, swings his changing sledge from
early morn TO twilight eve-or the man
who bends over his ringing Iap-stone the
live long day, is not one whit below the
smooth-iaced, keen-eyed merchant, who
follows the feminine employment of mea-
suring tape and ribbon-the eagle-eyed
barrister, who eXpounds, or rather mystifies
the law, or whose stately tread resounds in
our halls of legislation. Still, there exists
in the community low and baneful pre-
Judce IN regard TO this matter of labor.
Why, fathers nowadays must keep a
sharp eye on their sons, lest they stray
from :" the learned profession," and take
up tile degrading occupation of mechanic,
and thus entail a calamity upon the family
which can never be wiped out. The
daughters, too, must have maternal spy
upon their every glance and footstep, lest
she be clipping the light O her zee" upon
some poor mechanic Horrible Why,
the good lady would as soon think of link
ing her daughter with Patagonian heather
as a mechanic.
Are not the use of the trowel, the anvil,
the spade, and the hammer, Just as lauda-
bic employments wherewth TO build up
our comforts i'll life as the yard-stick. the
pcstIe and mortar, or library? Equally as
honorable and respectable, since they are
all employed for the same purpose. Labor
is labor, whether performed in the field
and workshop, or behind the counter, and
in the study. Honesty and honorable Ia
Dor are the same, whether performed by
the king or the peasant, by the priest or
layman; it is Just as honorable in the one
as in the other, and as worthy of the re-
spect and admiration of the world.
ears may pass over our heads without
aifordlng any opportunity for acts of high
benefcence or extensive utility; whereas
not day passes, but, in the common
transactions of life, and especially III the
intercourse of domestic society, gpn:leness
finds place FOR causing the happiness of
others and strengthening in ourselves the
habits Of true virtue.
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