The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-10-07
viii He Succeed ?


| In nine eases out of every teE, no
mans lie Will be q success unless he
bears burdens in his childhood. If the
fondness or vanity of father or mother
keep him from hard work if another
always helped him out ut the end of his
row; If, instead Of taking his turn at
pitching off, he moved away all of 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 shirk-
ing has become habit-uRiess mira
Gle is wrought, his life viii be failure,
and the blame viii not be half as much
hisas that of poor weak, foolish parents.
On the other hand, if n boy has been
brought up to dohis part; never allow
ed to shirk any legitimate responsible
ity, or permitted to dodge work, wheth-
er or motif made his back ache, or soil
ed his hands, until bearing heavy bur
| dens became a matter OF pride, the
| heavy end OF the wood his from choice
parents, as they bid goodbye, may
dismiss their fears. His life will not
| be a business failure. The elements of
success are his, and at some time and
i'm some way the world will recognize
HiS UuslHeeo ciplclty.
Take another paint. Money is the
object of the worlds pursuit. 1t is an
object. 1t gives bread and clothing,
and homes and comfort. The world
has not judged wholly unwiseiy when
it has made the position man occu-
pies to hinge more or less on his ability
to- earn money, and somew. at 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, or a
lack of fitness to cope with men in the
great battle for gold. 90
When q c0untfy-bred boy leaves
home, it is generally TO enter upon
come 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 childhood.
If all the money he has had has come
ofplanting little patch in the spring.
and selling its produce after 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 a shilling setting sna-es
in the fall for game, andwalkiHg miles
to see them in the morning before the
old folks were up; husSing corn for
neighbOr, moonlight evenings, at two
cents bushel; working out an occa-
sional 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 money
pennies to buy candy and fish-hooks,
and satisfy his imagined wants-and
he has grown to manhood in the ex-
pectency that the world will generally
treat him with a similar oonsidefation,
he will always be make-shift; and
the fault is not so much his rs those
about him, who never made the boy
depend on himself-did not make him
wait six months to get money to re-
place lost jack-knife.
Everybody has to rough it at one
time or another. If the roughing
comes in boyhoOd, it does good; if la
ter when habits are formed, it is equal
ly tough, but not being educational is
entirely useless. And the question
whether a 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 'thi5
part" and upon his having earned mo-
ney, and So gained knowledge of his
worth. Not little of this valuable
experience and knowledge the country
boy gets on the old farm, under the tu-
telage 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 subsequent
and Home.