Nevada County picayune., 1888-05-16
DIGNITY OF LABOR.
An Eloquent Appeal to Those Un- fortunates who Can Find
 Nothing to De-"

l mere ls dlgntN Ill iapOF. It u"es not narrow down the mental powers and the individual dignity. as is too often apprcciating of its incalculable assistance to human happiness, and made subseryient to the great plan of ! human life. is enabling. and itself exalted
 ] An idle man no more respects himself than do others respect him. He feels that he is fit and exposed object for others jeers and light re- marks. He lacks an eternal feeling of dignity. that is the nOblcst of all the impulses by which he iS controlI- cd and his life made bright exam pie He sees others at work around him, and feels a sense of isolation come over him that is perpetuaIly gnawing at the hugh pile of happi ness he had laid away for the good 1 time when he should have nothing to do. In his expected happiness he is of all men miserable. Something is wanted to give zest to the pleasure he is continually trying to enter up on. There hangs an underlined and undeiinable gloom about his | horizon. His blood flows slug gishly. He looks forward to- ward. nothing, because his all k right about him in the stagnant pres ent. His pleasure pail on his taste. He is cloved with the very sweetness l he had so wistfullv coveted. He en- vies the jolly. red faced drayman dragging at their loads of boxes. bales and barrels. The very sweep looks happy to his eye, because he seem. to go into hi. work with signs of animation. Oh the misery of lit orally having nothing to do nothing l to dol
 Some droncs are always hanging about the doors of the worlds busy hive complaining that they can find nothing to do: that the avenue to 1 distinction. to fortune and to happi- ness are all choked up with the jost- ling masses. This has ever been the lamentation of these fellows since the world began to revolve on It's ax- is. Can find nothing to do: Look about you and see, Have you look ed vet: If you have. have you looked as laborcr would go about the work actually before him: There it room enough in the wide world for all the willing hands that wish to go into the fields of labor. But you cannot find work hV waiting for it. IL does not walk round to every man. carryinglts own polite note of invitations. IL comes only of seeking and of asking. Its skirts are got hold of by the assis- tencc of a strong will Your practi- cal men are always busy about something. They are not drcamcrs. They put their hands to whatever comes uppermost. whether it be the nail or the sledge, the hoe or the chisel, and take their rank with the rest of the worlds workers. But the profcssed gcniu, is meanwhile dream ing over it's prospects. building its people castles. waving its wand back ward and forward over the whole earth, in hopes that somthing for tunate may turn up of itself.
 To this numerous class we heartily commend the following short pas sage from an eloquent oration deliV- cred some time since. Read it and upon il, that some profit may grow from the same:
 Sit not with folded hands calling on Hercules. Thine own arm is the demigod. Ii was given to thee to help thyfclf ENalt thine adopted profession, nor yainly hope that its name alone will cNalt thee. Look on labor as honorable. and dignifv the task before thee, whether it be in the study, office, counting room, workshop or furrowed field, There is an equality in all. and the rcSoutc will and pure heart may cnoblc ci- ther.
 "But no duty requires thee to shut out beauty. or to neglect the inlluen- ces that may unite with Heaven. - The wonders of art will humanizc the calling. The true poet may make thee a better man. and un- known feelings will well up within thee where the painters soul glows on canvass, and the almost breathing marble stands glorious monument of the StatuarV'S skill.
 Mature, too, will speak kindly to