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There was a light in the window, but I knew Father would not meet me at the door this time beleaguering winter without, and Death within! "Father and Mother! I think of them with inexpressible love and yearning, wrapped in their last eternal sleep. They had, for them, the true religion, the religion of serious, simple, hard-working. God-fearing lives.
How can we justify these sudden alternations in the life of a hard-working and peace-loving people who never indulged in any dreams of imperialism and foreign conquest? A look at the map will help us to solve the mystery.
I had a friend who was a good, hard-working clergyman; a brave, genial, courageous creature; he had a town parish not far from here; he liked his work, and he did it well. He was the friend of all the boys and girls in the parish; he worked a hundred useful, humble institutions. He was nothing of a preacher, and a poor speaker; but something generous, honest, happy seemed to radiate from the man.
But the hard-working farmer sees nothing of this. What cares he for birds, unless they pull up his corn? What cares he for skies, unless he can make use of them for drying his hay, or wetting down his potatoes? The beautiful changes of nature do not touch him. His sensibilities are deadened by hard work.
My husband, as I dare say you know, is a banker and a very hard-working man." "I agree with you," he replied. "One of the pleasing features of the axioms of Socialism adopted by the Democratic Party is that it respects the rights of the wealthy as well as the rights of the poor man.
If David had married some good, sensible, thrifty, hard-working farmer's daughter, Well, it might not have meant an improvement in the crops but it certainly would have spared him the expense of a tennis court, and theatre-going, and absolutely unnecessary trips to Chicago or Indianapolis whenever SHE took it into her head to go.
It ain't on record that she ever taught one single woman anything about economy, their hard-won knowledge beginning about where hers left off which wasn't fur from where it started; but she did bring a lot of wholesome pleasure into their simple, hard-working lives. In this new war activity it wasn't so much how you canned a thing as what you canned.
For instance, in Michigan, the State Grange for several years carried on a "Fresh-Air Work," by which over 1,000 working-girls, children, and hard-working mothers with babies, from the larger cities, were given a two-weeks' vacation in country homes. The philanthropic agencies of the cities arranged for transportation and secured the beneficiaries, while the Grange obtained the places for them.
At last a hard-working widow was chosen to receive it; the ladies carried it to her front door and gave it her, and she carried it to her back door and threw it into the alley.
From his father and his forefathers he inherited his trade, which, in his turn, he will hand over to his son a hard-working, honest, and sturdy man, the clank of whose hammer and anvil may be heard from daybreak to sundown. The trenchant edge of the Japanese sword is notorious.
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