The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1870-06-25

WILL He SUCCEED Pin nine cases out of ten,
no mans life will be success if he does not bear
burdens in his childhood. If the fondness or
the vanity OF father or mother kept him from con-
tact with hard work if instead of taking his turn
at pitching off, he moved 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 been permitted to shirk till
Striking has become habit-unless miracle is
wrought, his life will be failure, and the blame
will not be half as much his as that of weak fool
ish 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
soiled his hands, until bearing heavy burdens be-
came matter of pride, the heavy end Of the
wood his from choice-parents, as they bid him
good-by may dismiss their fears. His life will
not be business failure. The elements of sue
cess are his, and at some time and in some way
the world will recognize his capacity.
Take another point Money is the object of
the worlds pursuit. 1t is legitimate obiet t.
1t gives bread, and clothing, and homes, and
comfort. The world has not judged wholly un-
wisesy when it has made the position O man oc-
cupes to hinge more or less his ability to earn
money, and somewhat upon the amount Of his
possessions. If he is misSerably poor, it either
argues some defect in his business ability, some
recklessness in his expenditures, or lack OF fit
ness to cope with men in the great battle for
gold.
When country-bred boy leaves home, ii is
generally to enter upon some business the end of
which is to acquire property, and he will sue
ceed just in proportion as he has been made TO
earn and save in his childhood.
If all the money he had has come Of planting
a LITTLE nQfph in tho oprinO Qnd cnllinn itc urO
duce after weary months of watching and toll
in the fall or from killing woodchucks at six
cents head, or from trapping musk-rats, and
selling their skins for shilling setting snares
in the fall for game, and walking miles 10 see
them in the morning before the old folks were
up husking corn for Il neighbor, moonlight
evenings, at two cents 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 spending to buy candy and
fsh-hooks, and 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 always be make-shiit !;
and the fault is not so much his as that Of those
about him, who never made the boy depend up
on himself-did not make him wait six months
to get money to replace lost jack-knife.
Every body has to rough it at one time or an
other. If the roughing comes in boyhood it
does good if later, when habits are formed it
is equally tough ; but not being educational, is
generally useless. And the question as to wheih-
er a young man will succeed in making money
or not depends no; upon where he goes or what
he does, but upon his willingness to do 'his
part" and upon his having earned money, and
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of this valuable experience and knowledge the
country boy gets on the old farm, under the
tutelage of parents shrewd enough to see the end
from the beginning, and to make the labor and
grief of children contribute to the success Of sub
seqnent life. Hearth and Home.