The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-02-28

WORLD SEEMS TO HAVE NO
PLACE FOR The lDLER.
No Real Joy In life Of Ease Without
Labor, Says Man Who Has Given
the Matter a Tho ough
TtilI,

Ttial.
"After ALL" said a man who some
time ago had fortune left to him.
there's nothing like work.
II used to think that II had
money enough to- live on comfortably.
so that | didn't have to WORK. should
be happy My work was one incessant
grind. day after day the same un.
ending round OF the same things over
and over again. aud ! used 10 get so
tired of 1t all thar sometimes IT. seem
ed as though | should hy.
"But had to keep at tt to live. and
so | did keep al it tili a i slant rela-
tive Of mine that | had uo.rr known
was worth any ching died aDd Lett me
q fortune.
There never was ar"thing that
ever haUrC1,, to u. ...t ever save
me hair So much pleasure as that.
The FIRST thing ] did was to shake the
work which got r,d 1r as qJ.ckiy as
I dcccullv could. nld .I-u | set about
planning eaioyw-l.
Tho one thu- O. all that wanted
most WAS travel I oraved change,
and when thai n,ar" came I got IL. |
set ont on mN dreamed or travels
and found a koon dci.sht in them ali
for time
1t was all the same 20 me whether
II rancd or tho SIN stunc for wher.
ever I was or VIII rover was going.
was free to cuioy II all. and d.
for a time. but tLcn b'gan to find
myself in a way a'a,i. AID not so
much privileged to enjoy these things
as had been at first
For | was an idlcr pure and sim
pie. while all those to whom ! was
indebted for tbc possibility of the
pleasures of travel, the railroad men
and the steamship mon, were all
workers. as were also the hotel men
and the theatcy roorlc and every.
body to whom 7 was indebted for
pleasures in soiourn. al workers So
likewise were all or rca"ly all the
travellers | met. workers in one field
or another. all, and finding delight In
every breath they drew because they
were workers.
And they We're drawn. II not to
gether. at least toward one another
of their kind while |. au idler only.
had nothing in common with the
world Even in the far distant ports
where | leaned over the rail found
myself more and mere separated from
the laborer on the wharf, who, bound
though he might be TO his work yet
haI Il ,Ig H., - l.
complshed by labor, while was a
mere part.
'ln fact the more | idled the more
clearly I came to realize that the law
OF the universe is IL Or. that in nature
there is nothing idle, and the more
] travelled the more clearly It came to
me bow few real idlers there are
among men. When finally at the
end of three years of idling ] had
come back again to the city / had
this fact borne in upon me with
greater intensity than ever, and now
the great JOY that I had found at
first in sheer loafng was quite de.
parted.
"The city was alive with activity,
WIN men all at work, all doing some
thing. all accomplishing something,
and I was out of it, an idler and-a
stranger. Actually men looked at
me as a strange being, and some of
them with curiosity. That / should
be doing nothing when there was a
chance, they wondered.
Friends that ! had known greet.
ed me and smiled and then-passed
on. They had their work to do, and
their interests and their sympathies
were with other people. So / stood
alone. as one set off. until, by a
kind OF Providence. there arose with.
in me a desire to work.
i've been at it ever since, and
am at 1t still, grateful to be back in
the fold OF men,