Smyrna times., 1870-06-29
Will he Succeed?

In nine cases out OF ten, no mans life will be
a success II he does not bear burdens in his
childhood. If the fOndness or the vanity of
father or mother kept him from contact with
hard work If another always helped him out
at the end of his row it, instead of taking his
turn at pitching off, he moved away all the
tlme-n short, ii what was light always fell to
him. and what was heavy about the same work
to some one else if he has been permitted to
shlrk till shlrklng has become a habit-unIess
miracle Is wrought, his life will be failure.
ana the blame Will not be half as much his as
that Of 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, or
solied his hands, until bearing heavy burdens
became matter of pride, the heavy end of
the wood his from choice-parents, as they
bid him good-by, may dismiss their fears. His
HE VIII not be business failure. The ele-
mentS OF success are his, and at some time and
IN some way the world will recognize his capac-
ity.
Take another point. Money is the object of
the world pursuit. 1t is a legitimate object.
1t gives bread, and clothing, and homes, and
comic The world has not judged wholly un-
Wisely when 1t has made the position a man
occupies hinge more or less on his ability to
earn money, and somewhat upon the amount
ol ms POSSESSIONS. If he is miserably poor, it
elther urges some defect in his business ability,
some recklesSness in his expenditures, ora lack
OF htneSs to cope with men in the great battle
for gold
When country bred boy leaves home, it is
generally to enter upon some business the end
vi Wnlch Is TO acquire property and he will sue
ceeu just III proportion as he has been made to
earn and save in his childhood.
Ii all the money he has had has come of
Plahtlng little patch in the spring, and sell
iihg lts produce alter weary months of watch
ing ana toll In the fall, or from killing wood
chuCkS at SIX cents head, or from trapping
muak-ratS, and selling their skins for shilling
setting shares in the fall tor game, and walking
miieS to see them in the morning before the old
loiks were up; husking corn for neighbor,
moonlight evenings, at two cents a bushel
WORKING out an occasional day that hard work
at nome Las made pOSsible-he is good to
make his Pile in the world
On the contrary, if the boy never earned a
dollar; II parents and friends always kept him
III spending moncy-pennies to buy candy and
nSi- hOoks, and satisfy his imagined wants
ana ne mas grown to manhood in the expectan-
cy that the world will generally treat him with
similar consideration, he will ALWAYS be make
snlft; and the fault is not so much his as that
OF those about him, who never made the bow
depend on hlmsclt-dld not make him wait six
mouths to get money to replace lost jack knife.
Everybody has to rough it at one time or an
other. Ii the roughing comes in boyhood. il
does good if later, when habits are formed.
It Is equally tough but not being educational,
Is generally useless. And the question as to
whether young man will succeed in making
money or not depends not upon where he goes
or what he does, but upon his willingness to do
his part, and upon his having earned mon
ey' and so gained a knowledge of its worth.
Nota little of this valuable experience and
kn0wledge the country boy gets on the old farm,
under the tutelage Of parents shrewd enough
10 see the end from the beginning, and make
the labor and grief of children contribute to the
success OF subsequent life -HearM and Home.