Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1870-07-22
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Will he Succeeds
In nine cases out of ten, no mans life
will be success if he does not bear bur-
dens in his childhood. If the fondness or
the vanity of the father or mother kept
him from contact with hard work if in
stead 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 Sinking has become habit
unless a miracle is wrought, his life
will be failure, aud the blame will not
be half so 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,
unit! bearing heavy burdens became a
matter of pride, the heavy end Of the
wood his from choice-parents. as they
bid him goodbye. may dismiss their fears.
His life will not be business failure
The elements of success are his. aud at
sometime and in some way the world will
recognize his capacity.
Take another point. Money is the OBJ
ject of the worlds pursuit. It legiti-
mate object. It gives bread, and cloth
ing, and homes, and comfort. The world
has not judged wholly unwisely when it
has made the position niat occupies to
hinge more or less on bis ability to earn
money. and somewhat upon the amount of
his possessions. If be is misersbly poor.
it either argues some defect in bis busi-
ness ability, some recklessness in his ex-
penditures, or lack of fitness to cope
with men in the great battle for gold.
When country-boy leaves home, it is
generally to enter on 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 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 kill
ing woodchucks at six cents head. OF
trapping musk-rats, and selling their skine
for shilling, setting snares in the fall for
game. and walking miles to see them in
the morning before the old folks were up;
husking corn for a 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 con-
trary, if the boy never earned dollar il
parents and friends always kept him in
spending-money-pennies to buy candy
and fsh-books, and satisfy his imagined
wants-and he has grown to manhood 10
the expectancy that the world will gener-
ally treat him with similar considera-
ton, he will always be ihakeshift; and
the fault is not so much his as that of
those about him, who never made the boy
depend upon himself-did not make him
wait six months to get money to replace
lost jack-knife.
Every body has to rough 1t 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 being educational. is generally
useless. And the question as to whether
young man will succeed In making mo-
ney or not depends not upon where he
goes or what he does, but upon his will
ingness to do Ibis part" and upon his
having earned money. and SO gained a
knowledge of its worth. Not little Of
this valuable experience and knowledge
the country boy gets on the old farm, un-
der the tutelage of parents shre~d enough
to see the end from the beginning. and to
make the labor and grief Of children con-
tribute to the success of subsequent life.
Hearth and Home.