The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1871-02-25

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for doing nothing we never could guess. How
they contrive to make the weary hours passo in
any other than tedious, tiresome way by hugging
street corners and filling the counters of country
stores we never have been able to conjecture.
Though strange AS il NAV seem, many specimens
of humanity live easy, apparently, and get fat
on this sort of occupation, if you can degrade
the term to an application to this species of iner
tia What terrible commentary is written
and illustrated BY the do-nolhings of the world,
as they stand a-kimbo, a-mbo, with hands In
their pockets up-to-tbelr-elbOws, laZily devising
a plan by which they can get them into the full
pockets Of some other folks, listening 10 the mo-
tivless pointless mOralless joke story that's the
appropriate fruit Of such sions Work is to be
done a; home. But then convenient excuse
can be found for neglecIing it, Something lis
wanted at the shop. The work that is being
done, if pushed to completion, would advance
the work of the season very considerably. But
ii is thrown aside, some frivolous preteXt
and master mounts his horse and is off to shop,
store or tavern Here he meets 2 group of
half dozen, ten or twelve, just such circulating
decmals as himself
Men go to places Of public resort because other
folks do. They leave their ploughs and teams
standing idle, they close their shops or places of
business, they leave crops to suffer from lack of
on hand at some idle amusement, TO throw in
their contributions to the gossip o. the commu-
nifty and 20 receive their legitimate dividend
upon their stock in that business or tc vend
their for nomination ms "a Soi Hr
ing convention, because other people do these. -
Now we do not wish to be understood as mean
ing that all, who are at these places, neglect
their legitimate business and consequently their
families BY such conduct. There are always
those at such places who are in their legitimate
line of duty. But there are always those there
whose families and affairs would be better off
by their being at home or al their places of bus
mess II the financial wrecks that are spread
upon our insolvent records and sherfs pro-
ceedings were traced to their legitimate origin,
not a few of them would find their inception in
the hours OF idleness that have been fruitlessly
spent at rend, zvous for people of this character.
The unproductive muscle and brain that are
running to waste in this wise enormous. II
they were judiciousy applied and industriously
employed they would preveat more than half
the direiul consequences of idleness, and right
half the. existing wrongs in society. Desolate
homes, tumblng buildings, decaying farms,
wrecked prospects, growing store bills, frlghtful
visions OF letters from attorneys, setting forth
the fact that they have certain claics for collec-
ton, and then the acru OF ruination ito those
upon whom it is serred) finds its way to them
by the sheriff, all are legitimaiely born of idle
hours about loafng corners.
Were they sedulously used at any legitimate
employment, the waste places would bloom with
harvests, the desttution that comes to too many
households would be unknown there, the retro
grade steps that many men take in life would
not stain their names with disrepute Give the
idle employment, and you secure more good TO
society than it is possible to accomplish in any
other way.