Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-09
what is Your Occupations

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fed by simply existing and then pass
ing off the stage Of action like bub-'
BILE that is broken on the surface Of
troubled waters. Tits your bounden
duty, as a right-minded. able-bcdied
man or women to leave an indelible
record behind you; not like the train
of passing meteor, which vanishes
into nothingness while yet we gaze
and admire, but strive, the rather, to
shine like the stars, as Holy Writ
has it. I" forever and ever" 1t is
libel to call worthless man cipher.
Every school-boy well knows that
local value is possessed by ciphers
which we cannot gainsay. We really
do not know of anything valueless
and empty CROUCH to truly represent
a man who is too slothful in mind
and body to accomplish any good in
this world. Man is said to be the
only animated creature that ever
makes a failure. The way to be
something and do something is, first
of oil, to have well defined pur-
pose. But to have purpose, we
must have an occupation. A young
millionaire once asked q rich trades
man for his daughter in marriage.
What is your occupation ?" asked
the old man; but the youth could
make no reply. "Then go and learn
to make a good basket, as ] did,
said the father of the young lady,
and you shall have my daughter"
The young man did as he was bid
den. Long and faithfully he worked,
and, at last, produced basket which
his future ,father-in-law pronounced
perfect specimen Of beauty and
utility. OF course, he won the the
girl, and the father felt safe in con-
fding her keeping to one who
could support her by the labor OF
his hands, when panics and reverses
had swept away his inherited wealth.
The moral of this incident, which,
by the way, has the advantages of be-
ing founded on fact, has a special
reference to those young men whose
fathers are in such well-to-do cir
cumstances, that they are led to look
upon the mechanical trades as some
thing quite beneath their standing in
society.
Among the Jews of ancient times.
the sons Of rich men were required
to learn trade. not merely for the
simple purpose Of making such an ac-
QUESTION the means Of support, but
for the higher and nobler object of
intoxicating habits Of frugaiity and
industry. Hence, We hear ST. Paul
Boosting of being at charges to no
man, but ministering to his own wants
by the labor of his hands as tent
maker. We hear great deal about
tramps, lately, and che curious fact
is revealed that, large majority of
these worthless individuals are dou-
bly, unfortunate in not having learned
useful trades when they were young.
Boys who will not qualify themselves
for some useful occupation have no.
body to blame but themselves If they
are obliged, in after life, to work as
common laborers at whatever odd
jobs they can End to do. It is rather
humiliating othose people who pride
themselves on belonging to the So
called upper-classes of society, to
have it said that more than one hall
Of the unemployed young men, now
rowing about the country from city
to city, were rich mons sons. Yet
this is well known to be a fact That
will be happy day for our country
when, along with compulsory educa-
ton, law shall be enacted, compell-
ing parents to teach their sons, and
daughters too, some useful naechan-
zeal occupation. We say mechanic
ical. because We do not believe in
cultivating the intellectual faculties
to the neglect Of muscle. without
which brain edueation is practically
valueless. Young man, what is your
occnpations
PHYsIcuANs are puzzled at the per-
sistence Of the diphtheria at various
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