Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1878 — Work and Have. [ARTICLE]

Work and Have.

Industry and economy are the true specifics of hard times. The mints may coin millions of silver dollars, or the presses print tons of greenbacks, hut they will never bring prosperity unless tnc farmer has something to sell which will command remunerative prices in tho market. There is nothing to compare with industry. Grunting and groaning are of no avail. Labor is our best friend. It brings the comforts of life, ‘health and contentment. Labor was wisely intended as one of our greatest blessings. It makes our food sweet and our slumbers refreshing. It gives strength to the body and vigor to the mind. Heaven, for our highest good and sweetest enjoyment, ordained labor, and enforces it by pur necessities. Thus out wants are blessings in disguise. Had all our necessities been provided for without libor and exertion on our part, tho race, for the want of strength and energy, would long since have perished from the earth. Then let us work for the sake of work —for the good it does to our bodies and minds, as well as for the comforts and refreshments it brings to our appetites and aspirations. Work wisely performed will bring prosperity. It will brighten our skies. It will fill onr baskets and our stores. Work is the all-cure. It is the great panacea. Industry will brirtg bread, and cheerfulness. It saves us from sin and folly andbrings earth’s richest treasures and heaven’s brightest promises.—/otto Stale Register. —There is no difficulty in having a flower garden—a few mpmonts each day will keep it in order, if not too , large;.and even a few square feet of land planted with a good selection of flowers, all of which can be secured at trifling cost, will give flowers every day from early spring until late autumn, and will also be a constant, source of pleasure. Toor, weak man is so.anxious to be deceived that he deceives himself.