Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-02-05
VIII He Snoeeed 2

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 OF
the vanity of father or mother have kept
him from hard work if another always
helped him out at the end of his row; If,
instead 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 until shirking has become habit
unless miracle Is wrought, his life will
be a failure, and the blame will not be half
so much his as that of weak, foolish
parents.
On the other hand, If boy has been
brought up to do his part, never allowed
to shirk any legitimate responsibility or to
dodge work, whether or not 1t made his
heart ache or soiled hishands-until bearing
heavy burdens becomes q matter of pride,
the heavy end of the wood his choice
parents as they bid him goodbye, may
dismiss their fears. His life will not be a
business failure. The elements 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
ject of the worlds pursuit. 1t is legiti-
mate object. 1t gives bread and clothing.
and homes and comfort. The world has
not judged wholly unwisely when it has
made the position man occupies to hinge
comparatively more or less on his ability
to earn money, and somewhat upon the
amount of his possessions. If he is miser-
ably poor it argues either some defect i'll
his expenditures, or q lack of fitness to
cope with men in the great battle for gold.
When cOuntry-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 products after weary months of
watching and toll in the fall, or from kill
ing 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 cid folks
were up; husking corn for neighbor
moonlight evenings, at two cents bushel
working out an occasional day that hard
good to make his pile in the world.
On the contrary, if the boy never earned
dollar; If parents and friends always
kept him in spending money-pennies to
buy candies and fshhooks, and satisfy his
imagined wants-and he has grown to
manhood in the expectancy that the world
will generally treat him with similar con-
consideration, he will always be make
shift; 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 ta get money
to replace lost iackknife.
Every one has to rough 1t at one time or
another. If the roughing comes in to-,
hood, il does good; II later, when habits
are formed, it IS equally tough, but not be-
ing educational, is generally useless. And
the question whether 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 " 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 old 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 life.-Hearth and Home.