Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1874 — Work. [ARTICLE]

Work.

The man who has nothing to do is the most miserable of beings. No matter how much wealth a man possesses he can neither be contented nor happy without occupation. We were born to labor and the world is our vineyard. We can find a field for our usefulness almost anywhere. In occupation we forget our cares, our worldly trials, and our sorrows. It keeps us from constantly worrying and brooding over what is inevitable. If we have enough for ourselves we can labor for the good of others, and such a task is one of the most delightful duties a worthy and good man can engage in.—Our /Srettde JWwwf. ' —The Golden Bra’t “Cony 8. Pondent" complains of a grievance in the shape of a new-fangled alarm dock, which rudely interferes with the current of his courtsnip by a clamorous announcement of the hour of ten p. 'm. The persecuted lover says: "The old duffer, whose daughter we are just now courting, has got a new dodge to make us go home. He has rigged up one of the patent backaction leave-here alarm clocks on his mantelpiece, and when the bewitching hour of ten arrives the old dock gets up and waiks round the room, and the hand points to the doort After ten the pendulum hits pretty hard; the old duffer says if somebody don’t take the hint, one of these fine moonlight nights somebody will take somebody else by the scuff of the neck, and the chances are good for a-first-daa* funeral!"