The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-04-10
Il JOY OF
An Article That Is a Fit Counterpart of
carrying the Message to Garcia"

carrying the Message to Garcia"
D.. Herbert Moore in Lord & Thomas
Judicious Advertising: Think not, Sir
Man-of-Leisure, as you peep lazily
through your heavily-curtained window
at the scurrying 7 o'clock crowd on the
way to its daily toll, that you ave the
best of it because you can snuggle back
beneath your luxurious covering and sleep
until Jeems or Meadows brings your morn
ing coffee and paper and asks If you pre-
fer the Yellow Dragon or the Green Devil
for your forenoon spin.
Do not lay the flattering JUNCTION to your
soul hat yours is the happier lot.
Yonder youth with swinging step, with
fists dug deep into the pockets Of his
~thread-bare coat and a cold luncheon
wrapped in paper tucked beneath his arm,
tastes a finer, sweeter Joy than all your
luxury can bring.
His is the pleasure of incentive-the
glory Of work.
For there is a zest to 1t all. The quick
spring from bed. at the alarm clocks
summons, the hastily-swallowed break
fast, then out into the wine-like air Of
early morning. To work-vigorous work
of brain or Drawn, whether 1t be pegging
away at, a desk or directing the eternal
grind of clanking machinery.
1t is observation-disclosures!
Do not pity these work-a-day folk. Save
your sympathy for the hapless and hope
less idle fellowship fortunates or un-
vikings; alike commiserable
Joy goes with the working masses.
There is JOY in the monday luncheon,
whether in a gilded cafe or a cold snack
hastily devoured before the whistle
blows .
The evening meal is a feast to the weary
man, and his well-earned rest Is the
| prapfant low nf oil
Hard work is the best of all cures for
insomnia.
Thank God you can work!
Though your office labor strains yout
nerves and racks your brain, though the
shop takes the best of your strength
and vitality-be glad to be living, an &C
tive part of the working world.
You must earn your amusements before
you can enjoy them. Ennui has no part
in the strenuOu life.
Be glad, for conscience sake. that you
are not one of those most miserable of all
men, a fellow without a job-a human ma
chine standing idle, rusting and losing its
value from disuse.
Thank God you can work!
When sorrow and grief come, when you
seek to forget, to crush out cruel thoughts
thank God that you can absorb yourself
In your occupation, plunge deep into the
details of your duty.
Thank God hat you can work-that you
can grasp your pay envelope and say,
'"Thi is mine, the rightful pay for the Ia
Dor of my brain, the just earnings of my
strong right arm"
Be thankful. employer as we'll as en-
ploye, for the joy of working.
You know the pleasure of it.
Do not deceive yourself by the promise
(nine times in ten a pleasant little ~fiction)
that b~y-and-by you will retire, ease up,
end your life in idle luxury.
The business game is not alone for the
pleasure Of the spoils, but for the joy of
playing it.
What the world may call greed and
avarice you know to be the fascination
of success-the int~oxication of accomplish
ment; and it will keep you untiringly at
tt-on your mettle in the battle-till the
end of life.
For life is work.
And work is life.