Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-07-27
Will He NuCceed.

1n nine cases out OF ten, no man lie
will be success if he does not bear bur-
dens in his childhood. If the fondness or
the vanity of father or mother has often
kept him from contact with hard work if
another always 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 shirking has
become a habit-unless a miracle Il
wrought, his life will be failure. and
the blame will not be 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 legitimate responsibility OK
permitted to dodge work, whether or not
I a made a. back ache. or soifod his hands,
until bearing heavy burdens became mat
ter 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 failures. The
elements of success are his, and at some
time and in some way the world viii rec
ognize his capacity.
Take another point Money is the OBJ
ject of the worlds pursuit. 1t is legit-
innate object. 1t gives bread, and cloth
ing, and homes. and comfort. The world
has not judged wholly unwisely when it
has made the position man occupies to
hinge more OF 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, OF lack of fitness to cope
with men in the great battle for gold.
When a country y-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
childhood.
! If all the money he has had has come
of planting little patch in the spring,
and selling its produce after weary months
Of watching and toll in the fall, or from
killing woodchucks at six cents head, or
from trapping muskrats, and selling their
skins for shilling; setting snares in the
fall for game. and walking miles to see
them in the morning before the old folks
{
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 earn
ed dollar; if parents anG friends always
kept him in spending money-pennies to
buy candy and ish-hooks, and satisfy his
imagined wants-and he has grown to
manhood in the expectancy that the world
will generally treat him with similar con-
sideration, he wall always be a makeshift
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 jack-knife.
Everybody has to rough it at one time
or another. If the roughing comes in
boyhood, it does good if later, when habits
are formed, it is equally tough but not be-
ing educational. is usually useless. And the
question as to whether young man will
succeed in making money or not depends
not upon where he goes or what be does
but upon his willingness to do ".his part,
and upon his having earned money, and
so gained knowledge Of its worth. Not
little 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 tn,
beginning. and make the labor and grie
of children contribute to the success O
subsequent life.-Hearth and Home.