Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1858 — Employments Makc People Happy. [ARTICLE]

Employments Makc People Happy.

Speaking of corporal punishment j in school,” said a fair lady, “What pupil is the | most to he pitied!” “The pupil of the eye,Because it is nl- i ways under the lash,”

i One of the most important lessons ol life is to learn to work. Parents can do something for the establishment of the principle, of industry; but it its only by our own mental and bodily efforts that we make that principle a habit,; and not only learn to work, but learn to work cheerfully. Laziness is one of the worst diseases. It grows i by what it feeds oi|, until it enervates the I whole man, and makes him but a sickly | specimen of humanity. Its earliest symptoms should be checked by parents; but all I external appliances will prove but little j available, unless our own efforts coincide to j break the chains of the habit which is coiling around us. Laziness generates a inoral atmosphere for the soul that is more deleterious to its existence than the vapors of the famed Upas valley. No mephitic glasses can more quickly chjoke the vital principle of the soul than tjhis destructive habit. Rouse yourself, then; from the lethargy it creates. It is worse than a serpent’s fascination. It steals away not only time, but eternity. Hear what Daniel Webster says j on the topic: “I say it is employment that makes people happy. This grdat truth ought never to he forgotten; it ought to be placed on the title page of every b<xok on political economy intended for America, and such countries as America; it ought to head the columns of every farmerfs magazine; it should be proclaimed everywhere—notwithstanding what we hear of the usefulness, and I admit the usefulness of cheap food—notwithstanding that the great truth should he proclaimed everywhere; should he made into a proverb, if it could, that where there is work for the hands of men there wiill be work for their teeth; where there is employment there will be bread; and in a country like our own, above all others, will this truth hold good: in a country like ours, where with a great deal of spirit and activity among the masses, if they can fitad employment, there is a great willingness for labor, they will have good houses, good clothing, gb od food, and the means of educating their children; that labor will be cheerful, and they will be a contented and happy people.” Profitable labor is, iof course, a duty—a Yankee duty. But even a labor about trifles is better for a man’s energies, and for the health of mind than laziness. —New Haven Register.