Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1917 — A Man’s Work. [ARTICLE]

A Man’s Work.

The distinction and end of a soundly constituted man is his labor. Use Is Inscribed on all hlB faculties. Use is the end to which he exists. As the tree exists for Its fruit, so a man for his work. A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand In the universe. They are all toiling, however secretly or slowly, In the province assigned them, and to a use in the economy of the world, to higher and more catholic service. And the man seems to play, by his instincts and activity, a certain part that even tells on the genral face of the planet, drains swamps, leads rivers Into dry countries for their perforates forests ai/ stony mountain chains with roada, hinders the Inroads of the sea. on the continent, as If dressing the globe for bajgpter races.—Emerson.