The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-12-08
Will He Succeed.

In nine cases out of ten, no mans life will
be a success unless he bears burdens in his
childhood. If the fondness or vanity of father
or mother has kept him from hard work il
another always helped him out at the end Of
his row if, instead Of taking his turn at pitch
ing of, he moved away all of the time-in
short, if what was light always fell to him, and
what was heavy about the work, to some one
else; if he has been permitted to shirk till
shirking has become a habit-unless miracle
is wrought his life will be failure, and the
blame will not be half so much his as that Of
poor, weak, foolish parents.
On the other hand, if boy has been brought
up to do his part; never allowed to shirk any
legitimate responsibility, or permitted to dodge
work, whether or not it made his back ache OF
soied his hand, until bearing heavy burdens
became matter of pride, the heavy end of the
wood his from choice-parents, as they bid
him goodbye, may dismiss their fears. His
life will not be business failure. The Gle
ments of success are his, and at some time and
in some way the world will recognize his busi-
ness capacity.
Take another point. Money is the object o.
the worlds pursuits. 1t is an object. 1t gives
bread and clothing, and homes and comfort
The world has not judged wholly unwisely
Wneu IL HAS Hiauc tIie PoSiGtou Iuau ooSuPie>
to hinge more or less on his ability to earn
money, and somewhat upon the amount of his
possessions. If he is miserably poor, it either
argues some defect in his business ability, some
recklessness in his expenditures, or a lack Of
fitness to cope with men in the great battle fol
gold.
When country-bred boy leaves home, il is
generally to enter upon some business, the end
of which is to acquire property, and he will
succeed just in proportion as he has been made
to earn and save in childhood.
If the money he has had come of planting 9
little patch in the Spring, and selling its pro.
ducc after months of watching and toll in the
Fall, or from killing woodchucks at six cents q
head or from trapping muskrats, and selling
their skins for a shilling; setting snares in the
Fall for game, and walking miles to see them
in the morning before old folks were up husk-
ing corn for neighbor, moonlight evenings, al
two cents bushel; working out an occasional
day that hard work at home has made posi-
ble-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 spending money-pennies to buy candies
and fsh-hoaks, and to satisfy his imagined
wants-and he has grown to manhood in the
expectancy that the world will generally treat
him with similar consideration, he Will al
ways be make-shift; and the fault is not SC
much his as those about him, who never made
the boy depend on himself-did not make him
wait six months to get money to replace lost
jack-knife.
Everybody has to rough it at one time OF
another. If roughing comes in boyhood, il
does good if later when habits are formed, il
is equally tough but not being educational, is
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young man will succeed in making money OF
not. depends not upon where he goes or what
he does, but upon his willingness to do "his
part" and upon his having earned money, and
so gained knowledge of its worth. Not q
little of this valuable experience and knowl-
edge the country boy gets on the old farm, un'
der the tutelage of parents .shrewd enough tc
see the end from the beginning, and to make
the labor and grief of children contribute to
the success of subsequent life.-Hearth ana
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