Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-07-28
LABOR DAY
Proclamation Calls out M ore
Scripture Quotations.

1 Governor Atkinson Issues another TN
iqne State Paper with the aid OF
Concordance sets aside September
Third as Labor Day and Calls en- Ey-
i cry one to Observe 1t.
Governor Atkinson has issued the
i following proclamation, setting aside
Monday, September 3, for observance
as Labor Day:
State Of West Virginia,
/ Executive Chamber.
i The State of West Virginia, by its
! Legislature. having passed law set
! ting apart the first Monday OF Sep
I TENDER of each year as Labor Day,
and at which time all toilers should
step aside from their regular employ
ment, and give such day TO rest, Inn
proyement and enjoyment.
/ Now, therefore, 1, George w. At
! kinson. Governor OF the State of West
/ Virginia, do hereby recommend and
/ request that on Monday, September 3,
| 1900, all places where labor Is employ
! ed within the State OF West Virginia,
shall, SO far as possible so to do, be
shut down, so that all toilers may be
permitted to enjoy this day as one OF
rest from all cares and duties. In
! this manner, better than any other,
the dignity and worth Of labor can be-
brought To the attention OF the public,
and It's value TO the country at large
may be more fully understood aud ap-
| preciated
in the sweat OF thy face shalt thou
eat bread, till thou return unto the
ground: for out Of it vast thou taken:
/ for dust thou art and unto dust shalt
thou return. '-Genesis, 3s19
'Six days shalt thou labor, and
do all thy work. Exodus, 2o:9.
For thou shalt eat the labor Cf
thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and
| It shall be well with thee. - Psalm,
/ 1892
| ''In all labor there Is profit: but the
talk Of the lips tendeth only TO PEN
1 ury. Proverbs l4.23.
THE labor Of the righteous tendeth
TO life: the fruit OF the wicked to sin, =
Proverbs, 1916
Man goeth forth unto his sfcrk,
and to his labor until the evening. -
i Psalm, 1912
He that gathereth in summer IL
wise son; but he that sleepeth in har-
vest is a son that causeth shame. -
Proverbs, 1875.
''He that tilleth his land shall have
/ plenty OF bread: but he that followeth
after vain persons shaIl1have poverty
enough. Proverbs. 2S:l9.
/ Wealth gotten by vanity shall be
diminished; but he that gathereth by
labor shall increase, Proverbs,
| 1911.
! There Is nothing better for man
than that he should eat and drink,
and that he should make his soul en-
Joy good In his labor. This also
saw, that it was from the hand Ok
God. ~ Ecclesiastes, 2.24.
sgThe sleep OF laboring man Is
sweet, whether he eat little or much;
but the abundance OF the rich will
not suffer him to sleep. - Ecclesiastes
| SIP.
/ $50 we built the wall; and all the
wall was Joined together unto the
half thereof; for the people had a
mind to work nehemiah, 40
Let him that steals steal no more:
but rather let him labor, working
with his hands the thing which Is
good, that he may have TO give to him
that needeth. "-Ephesians. 4:2s.
And labor working with our own
hands: being reviled, we bless; being
prosecuted, we suffer It, III. Corin-
thians, 4:l2.
"Now he that planteth and he that
watereth are one: and every man shall
receive his own reward according to
his own labor. 81 Corinthians, 3:S.
THE husbandman that laboreth
must be first partaker 81 the fruits.
IL. Timothy, 80.
'sBut what think We? a certain
man had two sons; and he came to
the first, and said, son. 90 to work to-
day Ia my vineyard Matthew
22:28.
And that We study to be quiet, aud
TO do your own business, aud to work
with your own hands as we commando
ed you IL. Thessaloaulans ALL
For even when we were with you,
this We commanded you. that III any
would not work, neither should he
eat, Ill Thessalonians, 30.
.'For the workman Is worthy DIT his
meat Matthew, 1910.
10 witness whereof. / have set my
I hand and caused the great seal OF the
State to be affixed, at the capital i'd
the city Of Charleston, this 10Th day
OF July, in the year Of our Lord 1900.
and Of the State the 3Sth.
G. w. ATKINSON.
BY the Governor.
WM NJ. d. DAWSON,