The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-16
Will He Succeed f.

IN nine cases out "a ten, no mans Efc
will be a success il he does not bear bur
dans 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 ont at the end OF his
row Il, instead of taking his turn at
pitching off. he moved awav al the time
in short if what was light always fell
| 10 him, and what was heavy about the
same work to some one else If he has
been permitted TO shirk till shirking has
become hahit-unless p miracle IS
| wrought. his life will he failure, and the
| blame will not be half as much his as that
| of weak, foolish parents.
| On the other hand, ii boy has been
| brought up to do his part; never allowed
| to shirk any legitimate responsibility, or
| permitted to dodge work, whether or not
| il made his back ache, or sOiled his hands,
until bearing heavy burdens became a
| matter of pride, the heavy end of the
wood bis from chOice-parents, as they
| hid him goo1-bv, NAV dismiss their fears.
| His life will not be a business failure. The
clements of success are his. and at some
time and in some way the world will
recognize his capacity.
Take another point Money is the OBJ
ect of the worlds pursuit. II is a legiti-
mate object II gives bread, and clothing,
and homes, and comfort. The world has
not Judged wholly unwisely when II has
made the position man occupies To
hinge more or less on his ability 70 earn
money. and somewhat upon the amount of
his possessions. If he is miseraby poor,
it either argues some defect in his bust
ness ability, some recklessness in his ex
penditures, or a lack of fitness 10 cope with
men in the great battle for gold.
When a country bred hoy leaves homo,
il is generally to enter upon some busincs
the end of which is 10 acquire property
and he will succeed just in proportion
| he has been made To earn and save In IN
| childhood.
If All the money he has had has come of
planting a little patch in the spring, and
selling its produce after weary months ot
watching and toll in the fall, or from kill
ing woodchucks at six cents head, or
from framing musk rats, and selling
their skins for shilling setting snares
in the fall for game, and walking miles In
see them in the morning before the old
folks were up husking corn for neigh
Dor, moonlight evenings, at two cents
hushel: 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
dollar; if parents and friends always
kent him in spending ng-money-pcnnies la
buy candy and fish-hooks, and satisfy has
imagined wants-and he has grown Ia
manhood in the expectancy that the world
will generally treat him with similar con
sideration, he will always be make shit
snd the fault is not so much his as that oil
those about him, who never made the boy
denend on himself-did not make him WAIT
six months To get money to replace lost
jack knife
Everybody has To rough il at one time
or another If the roughing comes IN
boyhood, il does good If later, when hab-
its are formed, il is equally tough; but not
being educational, is generally useless
And the question as 10 whether young
man will succeed i'm making money or not
depends not upon where he goes or what
he does, but upon his willingness to do
Ibis part" and upon his having earned
money, and so gained a knowledge "i i's
worth. Not little of this valuable eN-
perience and knowledge the country poy
cots ON the old farm, under the tutelage
Of PARENTS shrewd enough To see the end
from the beginning. and make the labor
and grief of children contribute To the
success of subsequent life.-HedJth and