Show SWEET LABOR men often find fault with fate rate for compelling them to labor day by day and yet b bow ow miserable would they be without the soothing sweetening e power of toil I 1 recently the inmates of the pennsylvania penitentiary supplicated roost most humbly for permission t to 0 work no matter how laborious tho the toil mi might bt be they felt that they must bavo occupation for their hands or be ruined body and soul 1 if this need can become apparent to dissolute and abandoned convicts how plain it should be to the minds of men with dearer better and more hopeful objects in life it if colv convicts acts ca can afford to supplicate eup plicate for work merely for works own sake and without any hope of financial financial reward to themselves or dependent ones free men and good citizens can feel a joy in tho the labor which has a double object to keep the hands bus busy y to give comfort to wife babies and perchance abed parent parents |