The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-07-03
VOLUME XII.

Men see i'll their own work hurd-
ships and trials, while they recog
nize no hardships in anybody
else's occupation. Every man
burden is the heaviest, and every
woman's task the hardest. We
find people wanting to get
into other occupations and proies-
sions. / hear men in all kinds %
toll wishing they were enabled 9,
do something else, saying to me
81 have mistaken my path in life
| ought to have been a merchant
and am a mechanic; or, | ought tc
have been a mechanic and | am
merchant. | ought to have been
lawyer and l am an artist; if l had
undertaken something else in life
| would have had an easier time
and | would have had grander sue
cess" | suppose when the mer-
chant comes home at night, his
brain hot with the anxieties of
commercial toll, disappointed and
vexed, agitated about the excite
ment in the money market, he says
40, | wish / We're mechanic
When his days work is done the
mechanic lies down; he is healthy
in body, healthy in mind and
healthy in soul, but / cannot
Sleep" while at that very moment
tn, mechanic is wishisg he yera a
banker or a merchant. lIs says,
"then / could always have on beau-
tiful apparel; then | could move
in the choicest circles; then !
could bring my children up in a
very different sphere from chat in
which ! am compelled to bring
them up"
Now, the beauty Of our holy re
ligion is that God looks down upon
all the occupations and professions,
and while | cannot understand
your annoyances, and you cannot
understand mine, God understands
them all. He knows all abouu the
troubles of these men mentioned
in my text-the carpedter whe en-
couraged the goldsmith and he
that smootheth with the hammer,
and the gold beaters Talmoge.
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Judge Jeremiah ). Black Used
to say that after he came to Wash
ington as attorney general and had
to work very hard, he took up the
notion that tobacco was bad for
him, so one morning he concluded
to let the evil thing alone. He
went down to his Office feeling as
if he had lost his best friend. 1t
was his duty to 90 up to the SUI
preme court and argue a case. He
went and made the poorest argu-
ment of his life. He thought the
judges were set of muttonheads.
Then he went to see the president
and for the first time suspected he
wss an old hypocrite. He went back
to his Office, quaTeled with his
clerks, kicked the office boy, and
swore for the first time IN 20 years
On going home that afternoon he
met very pious clergyman, "a
whom he had great respect, and
who joined him, but before they
had gone ten yards, the judge felt
that he hated him. He meltiwel
however that BIO hadsgiefhdhp h.
bacco that day.ss lllk s.alls y1lpal
shook his heali44 a1iy i,iX 3,si
friend, ,llsile aid list MN b lrii7 \, \
was.aftlis layll'h lIsiSR 1ssttied
ikamye Fl a'ajls cost he my re-
4 ligien Il A'slded my children,
s,ld lnt sif6 siie was fool, got in
4ola 5iglt wih the deacons in the
ohpFs,, md if hadn't taken up
4 sl,olSlYg Just in time I'd been Il
ts,iserable reprobate at this mo-
lihent. Go and read your Bible
and if you can find word from
Genesis 10 Revelations against to-
bacco come back and Jet me know.
But if you want to save youf soul
90 back TO the noxious weed
The Judge says he took this adj
vice, aud from that moment he
never thought the supreme court
composed OF idiots or MIR Buehan-
an anything else but a statesman,
- ....,., ,t,,,spala with his