The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-04-19

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in Boston, Wednesday night on labor.
Among other things this l. what he
said:
Inriow ofths dignity csEork, fsay
that all men in this country ought 70
be taught to work with their hands.
That they should be taught to think,
that.their brain should be educated is
to be inferred. But 1 hold, since
work is dfgnided and nehIe,A creative
and benefcent in its uses, that Amcri-
can education should aI8ays 1cinde
init sufficient training 70 make ery
person n hand worker as well as d
brainworker. =;
The Jews haye'a proyerb that he
who brings up his children without
trade brings them up TO steal, ! am
half Jew on that point. 1t is eer-
tain that boy is neglected Of his pa
rents who does not knom how to worlf;,
and feels above work. Whenever you
see man whose duty il is to work,
whe feels above his work, yop my DO
sure that man is not fitto go any high
or, for no man is ashamed to DO that
which God puts him to do, If he be Q
fit instrument to do thc~diyine work
in this world. q
There is no feeling so peculiarly I'M.
American as shame Of work. II Is o
foreign vice; il is vulgar il has no bu-
siness here. The man who does not
know bow TO work is the man who
ought TO be ashamed the man who
knows how ought to be proud Of it. 1t
lis noble for a man to carry himself up.
Any man who inberits Wealth is like q
man who breaches his fathers SER
mons. Laughter and applause.] If
one inherits wealth he may excuse him
self for being ashamed Of work. I
have noticed that men who are born
wealthy are seldom troubled with that
shame. They are usually men who
have good sense in the matter cf work.
and are quite willing themselves to
toll when it is proper.
Every American child should know
how TO use his hands ingeniously. No
American boy is educated, nobody de-
serves the honorable appellat;on Of
Yankee who cannot use the ak, the
spade, the plow; who cannot yoke and
unyoke oxen, harness and drive q
team, who has not sufficient knowledge
of tools to perform any common act Of
necessity.
A true Yankee never sees anything
done that he does not steal the trade
with his eyes, and imagine how he
woald do it himself at pinch and i'm
prove upon it. He will do anything
sew ON buttons, shave a sick man,
cook beef steak, write sermon, lis
ten to one, or any other drudgery that
society may impose upon him. This
fertility and facility in work dignifes
the American, and universal thrift fol-
lows universal industry and ingenuity.
This necessity and propricty of work
has peculiar relations to US in the grow
ing exigeneies of our civilization, for
we stand at time when the household
is displaced from one tendency and
state Of society, and has not fairly set
tied upon another. When service was
class necessity, then the household
was blessed in faithful servants and
when all from the bottom to the top of
society shall be thoroughly intelligent,
then subordination OF work will give
to us again useful and Trustworthy as.
sistants. But We are living at period
Shen work aspires, but has not at
tanned; and the result is that in every
household complaints are uttered of
the difficulty ofprocuring work.
The best remedy that | can pro-
pound is, to 90 back to the doctrine
and practice Of our mothers and sis
ters. l remember the time when the
morning woke with the mothers voice
the sweetest bell that ever rang at
the stairs to call the children up, when
the table was spread by her hands or
her daughters, and when, sometimes,
the boys were put to the same task;
and all through the morning still shc
toiled and sang and conversed upon
themes worthy of womanhood, Chris
tain womanhood f; and when the noon
meal was cleared away, and the bright
afternoon sun poured its full light upon
the door yard and the kitchen, mothers
and sisters sat reading or sewing; and
after the transient evening meal, the
lamp sitting on the table, the hearth
stone glowing (if it was winter) again
she gathered around her circle. Those
were the days when there was health
among women, and virtue and wo-
manhood of which we have no occa.
sion to be ashamed, even in these days,
nong our mothers and our sisters
and il there was more work In the
household to-day, 1 think there would
bo fewer complaints against foreign
servants, and fewer complaints for home
doctors.-[ Laughter and applause.
Worm Protector" designed to cap.
turc and kill the worms. which annual
ly infest the trees Of forests, and parks
and fruit trees, has been invented by