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Show PRCKJD OF HIS WORK. An oVti! Snitch 1'rtifcssor Who Tnuk .yrlile In II Ih Labor a a Mechanic. I Dr. I). W. Richardson, of London, in I nn addn-ss to workii'gmen at tho con. i gross of the ;Suiiifary institute of Great i Britain, di-lared that "Work, manual work aid that, too, of a resolute kind , is absolutely )ieoesiary for every man." 1 lie spoke also of tliK important:' of do-j do-j inn ono's worl'i not merely to got it 1 ; d'liio, luit with a feeling of pride in do-i do-i ing it wi 11. In this connection lie said: j 1 was inviii d not many years ag to ! lecture tit St. Andrew's university and to listen in tin.' evening to a lecture by i another man, like myself, an outsider, j I was not por-onally ucipiainted with ! tins other man, but 1 knew that ho filled ! an important -judicial olUoo in Scotland. j and was considered otiti of tlm most able j and learned, as II tus one of the vvilti-; vvilti-; est, men in the country. Ho chose for his sub ject "Self ('nit-' ('nit-' tirs'." and for an hour held us in a perfect dream of ph ;i in . Tor my own part I could not reaiize that the amir had fled, j The lecture t tided ;it ToVloek. and at 8 1 f.iiit! I myself seal is I at dinner by the I ti,!.. ,.f the lecturer at the house of one of i the university p'ol'e.-i-ors. In the course j of ; he diirier 1 made some reference to j the ball in which the exercises of the ! day had ( n held how gis.Hl it was for sound atid what n fine structure to hxik upon. "And did you like, the way in wldch the k I ones were laid insider" asked my new friend. "Immensely," I replied. "The man who laid those stones was an art ist who Jiitisl h:.ve thought that his work would 1 ; .x.rli t li. sn,.s " live tiu'ourh the ages." Well, that is pleasant to hear," lie paid, "fur the walls are my .".in doing." lie had '.ho S otch accent when bo was in earnest. "Fori nt.riio man," I replied, "to have the means to build so fine a place," for I thought, n.n nr.illy enough, that bene,- a rich liirin he had built lids hall lit his t own exper.se and presented it to the lllii-I lllii-I vefsily. : "fortunate, truly." be answered, "but not in that sense. What I mean is lhatj I laid every one of those stoics with my ain hand. 1 was a working mason, and the builder of tiie hail gave me the job of laying the inside stone work, and I never had any job in my life in which I took so iiuich pride and so much pleasure." pleas-ure." That workman still lives, and is one I of the heads of the university. While ho ! was working with his hands ho was working aUu witu bis bruin. He took his degree, went t- the bar, and now he is a man houor.'-l Uu'ttughoiit the coiin-tn. coiin-tn. Fait: I refer to iiirn here only as the mason at his wot k, trnud of his labor. That, man had the idea of tho paradise. It, sweetened his work: it made it great. Wo applauded his brilliant lecture, but those sil, ::r, beautiful stcmes before him, whichfchoedourapplaiise, must. 1 think, have been to inn) one cheer more, and a big one. |