Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-06-16
Will He Succeed ?

In nine cases out of ten, no man;
life will be a success if he does not
bear burdens in his childhood. II
the fondness or the vanity of faith.
er or mother kept him from con.
tact with hard work; if another al.
ways helped him out at the end OF
his row; if, instead of taking his
turn at pitching of, 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 Sinking
has become habit-unless a mira
Gle is wrought, his life will be a
failure, and the blame will not he
half as much his as that of weak,
foolish parents.
On the other hand, if a boy has
been brought up to do his part;-
never allowed to shirk any legiti-
mate responsibility, or permitted
to dodge work, whether or not it
made his back ache, or soiled his
hands, until bearing heavy burdens
became matter fpride, 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 a business failure. The
elements of success are his, and at
some time and in some way the
world will recognize his capacity.
Take another point. Money is
the object the worlds pursuit. 1t
is a legitimate object 1t gives
bread, and clothing, and homes,
and comfort. The world has not
judged wholly unwiseIy when it has
made the position a man occupies
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 ar
CUES some defect in his business
some recklessness in his ex-
penditures, or a lack of fitness to
cope with men in the great battle
for gold.
When q country bred boy leaves
home, it 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 his
If all the money he hes had has
,ome of planting little patch in
he spring, and selling its produce
lfter weary months of watching
md toll in the fall, or from killing
at six cents a head, or
rom trapping muskrats, and sell
ing their skins for a shilling; set
ing snaresln the fall for game, and
miles to see them in the
morning before the old folks were
Up; husking corn for neighbor
moonlight evenings, at two cents a
working out an occasional
lay that hard work at home has
made possible-he is good to make
lis pile in the world
On the contrary, if the boy new t
r earned dollar; if parents and /
riends always kept him in spend t
ng money-pennies to buy candy a
nd fish hooks, and satisfy his i'm I
gined wants-and he has grown to |
manhood in the expectancy that the i
'orld will generally treat him with c
imilar consideration, he will al '
,ays be a make-shift; and the fault t
not so much his as that of those $
bout him, who never made the boy 1
epend upon himself--did not make d
i'm wait six months to get money t
} replace lost jack knife. =
Every body has to rough it at |
ne time or other If the rough t
lg comes in boyhood, it does P
ood; if later, when habits are il
,rmed, it is equally tough but not +
eing educational, is generally use
IS. And the question as to a
neither a young man will susceed Z
making money or not depends "
ot upon where lie goes or what he b
pes, but upon his willingness to do s.
lis part" and upon his having p
.rned money, and so gained a is
of its worth. Not lit. C,
, of this valuable experience and c,
the country boy gets on a
c old farm, under the tutelage of b
rents shrewd enough to see the h
ID from the beginning, and to p
AXE the labor and grief of chill il
en- contribute to the success of e,
bsequent life. - Hearth and n
ONE.
Extremes that should not meet. cl