The Oxford falcon. [volume] (Oxford, Miss.) 1865-18??, 1866-12-08
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Labor and It's Reward.

The most pitiful, but rarcst.
sight to be seen is talent begging
for employment. For every hand
there Iis somc fit labor. Every
healthy, rational being endowed
with sepse enough to guide mus
a,la ction has vocation "a
(which food and faiment may be
won for Useful work. For every
lone of the twelve hundred millions
of mankind there is, and will al
ways bo, something usaful and
| Iprohtable to do. All are not en-
ployedi bnt the more the human
taco recedes from barbarssm tho
moro nearly Universal will labor
become. Work disciplines, refincs
Ielevates and Informs; idleness de-
gredes, Supplies and brutalizes.
Labor is honest, idleness is a'fraud
and a theft. Ho who works obeys
divine decree; he who is idle vio-
latcs it. A good workman is Il
part of the worlds wealth; an i9ler
is Q nuisance, and Incubus and a
cu!;se.
The kinds Of ussfIl and neces-
sary. work are innlimerable among
them every one can find, ,someform
p RK FOR which he is specially
ltod The motive power of mere
muscle, guided by limited intellect.
easily finds its place. Skill gained
by education and practice seeks
and aims another grade of work
in which the brain guides and
helps the hands. The. higher fac
'ulty of themaster- r-workman makes.
him the director of the work of
others. The merchant interchange
the products of labor. The inven-
tive faculty plans implements and
machinery by which the products
Of labor are increased. The re
searches Of science pioneer me-
chanical invention and gridelabor
to useful fields. The FORMS ofwori1
are as various as the material sub.
+ stances on which it. is employed;
the grades and kinds of taTent afo
equally various. There is a
, speciality for every sort of talent
or aptituce. Every man has his
calling, which it is his beiinder
| tduty to follow. Unappreciated
: talent in, anything is not often
seen. Real talent seldom goes
begging-never long The world
is often blamed for what comes
from an erroneous education, oft :
! ener still for the result of miiplace
' ment. Many youths who would
haXe been happy and successful
farmers, are spoiled in the attempt
> to educate them for a learned pro.
Q fessiOn. Young men try what they
e are not fitted for, either by talent
, or strength of will, and fail; or on
the OTHER hand lead discontented
lives in workshops when conscious
of capacity for mental labor that
v would lead to distinguished use
1 fulness. That for which one is
; naturally fitted he pursues with
pleasure, and attains success in il
: without painful straining. Where
o voting man is fitted for his work
/. and lctes it, the result is content
q ment, progress and success; he j.
never in want of a situation. Hc
i who finds hitlself on the wrong
s track in life. should rectify the er-
Q ror at once. Ambitious fathers
# and too partial friends, do much
!. harm to boys } y trying to make
? out of them doctors, lawyers, mer-
) chants. preachers or generals
when they are really fitted for less
If ambitious but equally honorable
4 pursuits. Painful disappointment
follows. They come to the arens
. of business to contend for success,
Il against men having the kind O
8 talent needed, but they bring NJ
( talent themselves to the contest
They are like sickly boys fighting
. with the trained aladiators of thC
l. professions. They fail, or what i,
l. scarcely better, attain to a ques
d tionable mediocrity after years 0
: discontented trials. The 8worlC
has nd sympathy for them anc
e never hss for any attempt to Dor,
g auger holes with gimblets. Peo
ID pie employ tie skill or talent they
/ aineed; pretehtion is a vagabono
which they cannot use and vii
q not trust.
6. Books on manners are writer
t. for the good of young people
a. They are instructed in these trea
! ties how to seal letters, dance cotil
- lions, tic cravats, hold forks, max
n, bows, tip. beavers, swing canes
- pass compliments, cut acquaint
Id ances and carve poultry. Som
] strong-minded benevolent ma
= ought to prepare and publish
Z guide book for young men
Isl which q good deal Of sound advic
le. should be given for small sur
wv by means Of which they might
of taught what business to seek, ho
ms to get and how to keep it.