The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-14
HElPFULNESS OF WORK.
without Employment Life Would Be Ono
Long Span of WEAKNESS.

Without Employ ment Life Would Be OEo
Long Span of WEAKNESS.
God put Adam in the garden of Eden ''to
dress it and to keep it.'' Herein He recog
nized, even in the earthly paradise, the uni
versal law of work Unemployment for hand
and brain Doubtless this law will prevail
even in the celestial paradise. Without en-
ployment eternal life would be eternal
WEAKNESS.
The late fearful disaster in the Cone
maugh valley left the survivors bereft OF
homes, families, friends, property and hope.
When outside helpers organized the stricken
multitude and set them to work, reporters
for the press were struck with the immedi-
ate change for the better in look and tone
and bearing.
In any great calamity, whether impend-
ing or already come, nothing is so helpful as
ell crossing employment. Men working at
the pumps to save, if possible, the sinking
ship, do not suffer In tenth part as much
as those who stand gazing in the face of
death. No bloody encounter on the battle.
field equals in horrible experience the posi-
ton of the line which must simply hold its
ground without returning the fire of the
enemy.
Next to the abject poor we may pity the
inheritors of vast wealth, who are too often
without stimulus to exertion, and indeed are
often excluded from it by foolish social no
tons. Amusements form sorry substi-
tute for actual employment for they soon
lose their power to please. The great mid
die class enjoys the blessed reaction of regu-
lar, adequate work, and their children are
to be pitied if their fathers industry dooms
them to a life of ldleness.
MANY persons whose minds, for want of
wholesome activity, have fallen into an I'M
healthy state, have been saved from insan-
ity or suicide, through the calling out OF
their sympathies in behalf OF others. Such
work is the more helpful in that it brings
into play the best part of ones nature, the
part most happy in it's reflex influence.
Not few successful men retire from
business at comparatively early age to en-
Tow, as they term it, period of rest. Such
men generally make sad mistake Their
enjoyment is not half what 1t was before,
and they are fortunate if the tendency Of
the brain to shrivel with years be not sad
~ fastened by the cessation of its lifelong
activity.
John Quincy Adams kept at his post in
Congress to the last, not because OF politi-
cal ambition nor on account of pecuniary
need. but because he wished by working to
retain as long as possible MS power 10 WORK.
Mr.. Gladstone retains his extraordinary
working power by using brain and arm
No more cruel law, no law more opposed
to the great end of prison discipline, was
ever enacted in America xhan the one which
deprived convicts of opportunities for la
Dor. Death itself would be preferable to
the insanity, vice, disease and general de-
terioration of the whole man, physically,
mentally and morally, which are the natural
results of such OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Com
panion-
"A new sort of boot sole has been in
troduced in Nuremburg. consisting OF
sort of trellis of spiral metal wire,
the interstices being filled with gutta
percha and resin. They can be fitted
with nails like ordinary soles, are fifty
per cent. cheaper than leather, and
vastly more durable.
in experiments made in France,
where plates of celluloid were used fol-
sheathing ships bottoms instead of cop
per, it was found that the plates were
intact and free from marine growth,
which was abundant on parts not pro-
tected blythe celluloid.