The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-02-18
nMork. Mo.k. Work."

Work. Work. Work"
some years ago we sat in one Of
the churches of Baltimore and listes-
ed TO that prince among preachers.
the late DR.. Babcock. as he told OF
the dignity of labor. the glory Of
work, and but recently We read with
keen interest. an address delivered
by the late S Teackle Wallis. one OF
the most brilliant lawyers the State
of Maryland ever gave 20 the prac-
tice of a noble profession in whics
he said among other things we
have all read. many times. and there
are few Of ms who have not dropped
tear. now and then. over that Won
derful and painfully suggestive poem
The Song of the shirt" A broth
er humorist of Hoods whose praise
is almost fame. has said with
truthful sympathy. that 30 may sure
/ BY rank as a great act of charity TO
1.-The world" You remember, ot
course. us wild and touching bur-
den
Work. work work
From weary chime to chime
4 Work. work. work
As prisoners work for crime.
And set how few there are who
pause 20 fathom am the depths of
the story which f. tells Our hearts
are wrung. and our eyes nll as We
b gaze upon the single picture to
which it points of toll. and hopeless
e. and forsaken wretchedness. and We
s. forget that the woman who sits ia
d unwomanly rags. plying her needle
s. and thread. is only the melancholy
extreme and unhappy but legiii-
mate consumation. of a social ana
political philosophy which throws
lbs universal shadow over the more
De- prosperous developments OF modern
Be- civilization. We lose sight. in our
Is pity of the fact. that work work,
" work is the great moral and max
- inn of the age in which we live Co
Do inc home. 70 It's true with the cruel
Do est severity. TO the comlortless dwell
al ungs of humble and ill-paid toll
le but laying it's iron hand, neyerthe-
es less upon the lives and the desti-
x MES of almost all classes of society
'r Is it not the theme of the books
n- that men write for all of us. and Of
'l the teachings thee bare youchsaieo
~. 70 MS for the phich al guidance Of
Fl life al the domestis fireside, from
g the professors chair and the cham
k bers of legislation? There Is h'
.y ditty of our childhood which ring.
'r; more familiar jingle in our ear
Ia than that which warned us tina
ILL., amid our playthings, how
he satan finds some mischief still
nd For idle hands to do"
of Would that VIC could follow tn
or-l GREAT sneaker as wlta biting sal
as casm be scores "monoy-gy,,rnr
-, secular rriro1 FATHER more lmpor
-'lani ihan the other if anything.
tom and Carlyle. who said "Out PM
zee. pose in ibis world is TO do some
lay thing and that provided we ere q
lea WAYS doing and in earnest il, make
' DO great matter what $50 do' an
Loneielow who urged man "tc 4
lor and waite and "suier and
On lrone" Ills hearts mpathy d
rather went out TO gantle-heartC
Hood who lameated chat brea
should be so dear,
'e- And flesh and blood SO cheap
am "Jockeyed and iockeying il is
most of us. breathless trial
eh' more speed Our thought rs OF OIL
her ward notion, and the compendiu
of our life system. for the mo
ned part. is that we get over the groun
her and then into it,"
No wonder when ne looked upc
ana men. my brother men, the worker
he was ready TO exclaim with Cha
tie Lamb. Had / a little son wou
on christen him. Nothing to do TT
gifted speaker had been an earne
C. worker himself and yet would mai
heart-plea 90 relax the present tens
OF toll. And he was right. III
world should stop now and tho
Y. and catch its breath.