Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1870 — Will He Succeed! [ARTICLE]

Will He Succeed!

’ In nine cases out of ten, no man’s life will be a success if he docs not bear burdens in his childhood. If the fondness or the vanity of father or mother kept him front contact with hard work; if another always helped him out at the end of his row; «f> instead of taking his turn at pitching off, he mowed away all the time —in short, if what was light always fell to him, and what was heavy about the same work to some one else ; if he has hqen pemjtted-tp shirk till shirking has become 6 ’baßit unless a miracle is wrought, his life will be a failure, and the blame will not be half as much his as that qf, weak, foolish parents. Oh the other hand, if a boy has been brought upto do his part; never allowed to shirk any legitimate responsibility, or permitted to dodge work, whether or not tt inade his back ache, or soiled his hands, until bearing heavy burdens became ai matter o| .pride, the heavy vend of the wodd his from choice—parents, as they bid-hi in good by, may dismiss their fears. Ilisllfe Will not be a business failure. The elements of success are his, and at some time and in some way the world will recognize his capacity. Take ahMher point. Money is the object of the world's pursuit. It is a legilinrate object. It gives bread, and clothing, Shd hftnes, and comfort. The world has not Judged Wholly unwisely when it has A. position a man occupies to Mage more or less On his ability to earn money, and somewhat upon the amount of his possessions. If he is miserably poor, «objc defect inhisbuslftessabiiity, some recklessness in his expenditures, or a lack of fitness to cope with men in the great battle for gold When a country-bred boy leaves homo „ n 18 generally to enter upon some busiues thb rad of which is to acquire property ada Me win succeed Just in proportion a he has been made to earn and save in hi childhood. If all the money he has had has come of planting a little patch in the spring, and selling its produce after weary months of watching and toil in the fall, or from killing woodchucks at six cents a head, or from trapping musk rats, and selling

their skins for a shilling; setting snares in the fall for game, and walking miles to see them in the morning before the old folks were up; husking corn for a neighbor, moonlight evenings, at two cents a bushel; working out an occasional day that hard work at home has made possible—he is good to make his pile in the world. On the contrary, if the boy never earned a dollar; if parents and friends always kept him in snendlng-money—pennies to buy candy ana fish-hooks, and satisfy his imagined wants j -and he has grown to manhood in the expectancy that the world will generally treat him with similar consideration, he will always be a make shift; and the fault is not so much his as that of those about him, who never made the boy depend on himself—did not make him wait six months to get money to replace a lost jackknife. E verybody has to rough it at one time or another. If the roughing comes in boyhood, it does good; If later, when hab its are formed, it is equally tough; but not being educational, is generally useless. And the question as to whether a young man will succeed in making money or not depends not upon where he goes or what he docs, but upon his willingness to do “ his part,” and upon his having earned money, and so gained a knowledge of its worth. Not a little of this valuable experience and knowledge the country boy gets on tRe old farm, under the tutelage of parents shrewd enough to see the end from the beginning, and make the labor and grief of children contribute to the success of subsequent life.— Hearth and Home.