Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-11-17
Must Work or be Worthless.

Must Work or be Worthless.
Goodwin's Weekley:
eff were thou, @ working bee,
And all that honey gold I see
Could delve from roses easily,
| would not hive it at mans door,
AS thou-that heirloom of my store,
| Should make him rich and leave me poor
The fact that the bee does work at
mans door is because the insect has
learned, in temperate zones, that by
staying around mans door it gets a
better house than it can safely pick up
in the woods, and that it does not have
to travel so far for the raw material
which its secret miracle converts into
honey. One patch of alfalfa is worth
more to bee than a whole wilderness.
The domesticated bee is an evidence
that the little creature in its struggle
for food has learned in measure, at
least, to recognize in man great
superior being, who builds for it house
and for its especial benefit plants and
, rears the material that it wants to work
upon. And the man who is in full
harmony with the insect is never harmed
by it. We have all seen one boy in a
family that could go among the bees,
fix their homes and cut off the limb on
{ which they had swarmed, carry it and
put house over it and never once be
. stung, while all the rest of the family
had to fight shy of them.
This is due to some instinct, doubtless
i the same that causes the. house dog,
when half dozen guests arrive, to go
directly to one of the party, show him
il that he is glad to meet him, but at the
" same time hold himself aloof from the
other five.
. The poet who wrote the above was
% neither a generous man nor a close OBJ
e server, for he took the same grounc
a that the hornet has taken through al
# time, with the result that it has nc
house except patched up affair on the
y limb of a tree, and it is an Ishmaelit'
10 among insects; every mans hand il
is against it, and its sting is against ever.
in man.
Again. from the bee we can lear
why most of the races of men In tn
Il tropics are worthless When the frs
s. pair were turned out of the garden, the
I'd were given the whole earth. Every
in thing was promised them, but there wa
an one condition. imposed; that was the
:. must work. 1t was not put upon the1
I'D as penalty, but to bring out all tina
e. was best in them, so when man gets
IL a climate where he does not have
ms work for clothes to keep him warm, h
ignores one garment after another, n
pride decreases in the same proportion
nc and when there are fruits, nuts, ar
mt wild grain growing spontaneously arour
him, with game and birds and fish tn
he can easily secure, he gradually slnl
he until he becomes loafer and utter
ns worthless.
1t is the same way with the bee.
y soon as it gets to understand that
r. need fear no winter, it, too, becomes
loafer, takes to the woods, does no wo
except to go out in the morning Al
|. breakfast off a flower, then Tolls on
leaf all day and becomes as trifiing
are the men and women who inhabit t
same region. The chances are, tc
that the bee does not live out half
days, for it grows careless and slee
while the spider spins its web around
fig The lesson of it all is that man
lal- animals need the discipline of labor
bring out whatever good lies dormant
sh- them, else they become INDECENT
are cruel. The tropicel man when arous
leir has all the instincts of the tiger, VIII
VS. sleeps all day and goes out at mig
VS. with no thought save that of the ass
,ro- sin. The man who breaches that WI
nite the worlds wealth is equally divie
VS. among the worlds people all men
,tsy have an easy time, flies straight in
ded face of the edict that was put upon N
ind from the first, that if he is to have al
hat thing worth having he must work
lind it.
hen