The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-10-13
VIII He Succeed.

In nine cases out of ten no mans
life will be g success ifhe does not
bear burdens in childhood. If the
fOndness or vanity of father or moth
er have kept him from hard labor
if another always helped him ous OF
the end of the row; if, instead OF
taking his turn at pitching of, he
moved away all the time-in short
II what was light always fell to him,
and what was heavy about the same
work to some one else ifhe has been
permitted to shirk till shrinking has
become a habit--unless a miracle is
wrought, his life viii be a failure,
and the blame viii not be halt so
much his as that of weak, foolish
parents.
On the other part, if a boy has
been brought up to do his part new
er allowed to shirk any legitimate
responsibility, on to dodge work,
whether or not it made his heart
ache or his hands bIack-untiI bear
ing heavy becomes q matter of pride,
the heavy end of the wood his form
choice-parents, as they bid him
good bye may dismiss their fears.
Ills life viii not be business failure.
The elements Of success are his, and
at some time and in some way the
the world viii recognize his cap
acity.
Take another point. Money is
the objet of the worlds pursuier. 1t
gives bread and clothing and homes
and comfort. The world has not
Judged wholly unWisely when it
has made the position q man .Occu-
pies to hinge comparatively more or
less on his ability to earn money and
somewhat on the amount of his
possession. If he is misera bIy'poor,
it argues some defect in his expend-
itures, or a lack fitness to cope with
men in the battle for gold.
When a country boy leaves home
it is generally to enter upon some
business, the end of which is to ac-
quire property, and he viii succeed
just in proportion as he has been
made to earn and save in his child
hood.
If all the money he has had, comes
OF planting a little patch in the
spring, and selling its produce after
a weary months Of watching and
toll, in the faIl-Or from killing
WOodchucks at six cents a head-or
trapping muskTats and selling their
skins for a shilIing-setting snares in
the fall, for game, and walking miles
in the morning before the old folks
are up-husking corn for a neighbor,
on moonlight evenings, at two cents
a bushel-WOrking out an occasional
day that hard work at home has
made pOssible-hG is good to make
his pile in the world.
On the contrary, If abOy never
earned q dOllsr-if parents and
friends had aIways kept him in spen-
ding mOney-peunies to buy candies
and fish-hOOks, to satisfy his imag-
NATIVE Way-and had grown to man
hood in the expectancy that the
world will generally treat him with
similar considerations, he will al
ways be a maEe-shiH. And the
fault is not SO much his a. 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.
Every one has to rough 1t at one
time or another. If the rOughing
comes in bOyhood it does good; If
if later, when habits are formed it is
equally tough, but not being educa-
tiOnal, is generally useless. And
the question whether q young man
viii succeed in making money or
not upon where he goes nor what he
does, but upon his Willingness to DO
his part and upon his waving earn
ed money, and so gained q know
ledge of its worth. Not 2 little Of
his valuable experience the country
boy gets on the old farm, under the
tutelage of parents shrewd enough to
see the end from the beginning, and
to make the labor and grief of chill
drcn contribute to the success of sub
seqUeut life.