The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-02-13

eldest weekly newspapers printed IN
Georgia.
Mr.. Hawey Craig has been its edi
tor for nearly fifty years and in re.
firing gives the reasons why and in
doing so contributes the following
original article on "work"-just plain.
every day work. which if read, we
know win be appreciated by the
readers OF the Banner.
In bidding his friends, countrymen
and lovers farewell, Mr. Craig says:
We do not intend to give you any
farewell poppycock about the upbuild
ing or the vox Populi, or our old
friend the Palladium. We are going
70 get down to the text and tell why
we are quitting.
We are going to consider the lilies
We are going to get in line with the
Scriptures at last
Consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow; they toll not, neither
90 they spin: And yet say unto
you, that even Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one OF
these"
We have got good and tired OF
working. Away back when we were
a small kid hoeing corn OF summer
afternoon and the sun got hitched
on a snag about four o'clock and stay.
ed there. we got it in our heads that
there was something radically wrong
about the entire scheme of this thing
salled Work. However, up to this
good day we have stuck to the wheel
as faithfully as Ixion. But we have
nutinied at last. We are done.
We are going To consider the lilies
They lay it all on Adam-they say
he started II by getting in trouble
and having to go to work as a pun
Khment But that isn't so. The
only work that there is any account
81 Adams doing was before he fell
As soon as he got dry he was put
90 work
And the Lord God took the man
and put him into the garden of Eden
20 keep IL and dress it,
Well wasn't that work? Isn't
dressing a garden work? OF course
he was bound to make failure OF
H. A man with no more sense of the
fitness Of things than to dress a gar
den and go naked himself was not
liable 70 make shining success.
And after he lost his office and left,
there Is no account that he ever
struck another lick. Abel worked.
and Cain worked. and the girls. what
ever their names were. probably work
ed, bat no more OF 1t for Adam. He'd
had enough. He spent his time con
sidering the lilies
We take IL as a self-evident prop.
osition that no one ever worked that
didn't have 10. II is the Shadow OF
the Wolf on the doorstep-that's it
As we have gone 70 our work of
morning for the past thirty years we
have seen myraids OF little human
ants q all ages. sizes, and sexes.
hurrying and scurrying 70 their lit
Gle hills 70 toll and sweat and carry
their neverdiminishing burdens. Du
yoa think they do this because they
love co. Il Is the Shadow OF the Wolf
ON the doorstep.
And this brings as to the age-oId
question. Why trampg' Let us tell
you why: Our festive friend and true
philosopher has no Wolf at the Door.
To him there is no wolf and there Is
No door. His wolf is sucking lama
Gamboling on the green, and his door
h the flowery highway to the, orient
gntas Of the dawn.
Like those first builders OF Rome
be regards the flight OF a bird and
whither Il goes and thither he bends
MS steps-care-f free as the robins in the
woods o. the larks that carroll to the
rising sun. The trees in forest aisles
bend their limbs to make a triumphal.
arch for this returning knight who,
Thesens-like has met and slain the
dragon Of Toll
He considers the lilies.
Go % the ant. thou sIuggard: con.
slider her ways. and be WISE" This
has ever been favorite saying with
those advocates OF Work who sit in
rocking chairs. Let as look into 4
= little. solomon who wrote il
while loaflng around the harem. knew
precious little about the ant-or tho
American ant AZ least. The ant that
Ne know win wander on several miles
ilom home and grab up a grasshoppel