Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-04-21
BELLOWS FALLS, VT. FRIDAY.
Will He. Succeed.


dens in his childhood.
If the fondness or the vanity of faith
er 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 now
ed 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 the shirking has become habit
unless a miracle is wrought, his life
will be 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 allow
ed to shirk any legitimate responsibility
or to dodge work whether or not it made
his heart ache, or soiled his hands,, ,-un-
til bearing heavy burdens becamea mat
ter of pride, the heavy end of the wood
his from choice-parents, as they bid
him good-by, may dismiss their fears.
His life will not be 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 object Of the worlds pur-
suit. 1t is legitimate object.
1t gives bread, and clothing, at home,
and comfort.
The world has not judged wholly un-
wisely when it has made the position a
man occupies to hinge comparatively
more or less on his ability to earn mon
ey, and somewhat upon the amount of
his possessions.
If he is miserably poor it argues eth
er some defect in his expenditures, or a
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 bnsi-
ness the end of which is to acquire prop
erty, and he will succeed just in proper
ton 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 produce after weary
months of watching and toll in the fall,
or from killing wood-chucks at six cents
a head, or from trapping muskrats, and
selling their skins for a shilling setting
snares in the fall for game, and walking
miles to see them in morning before the
old folks were up; husking corn for a
neighbor moonlight evenings, at two
cents bushel; working out an occasion
al 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 earn.
ed dollar; if parents and friends al.
ways kept him in spending money-pen'
nies to buy candies and fish hooks, and
satisfy his imagined wants-and he has
grown to manhood in the expectancy
that the world will generally treat him
with similar consideration, he will always
be make-shift and the fault is moi
SO much his as that of those about him
who never made the boy depend upor
himself-did not make him wait siz
months to get money to replace lost
Ijack-knife.
Every one has to rough it at one time
or another.
If the roughing comes in boyhood, il
does good if 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 de
pends not upon where he goes or what
he does, but upon his willingness to dc
81 his part" and upon his having earned
money, and SO gained knowledge 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 grit Of children
contribute to the snccess of subsequen,
Ilife.-Hearh and Home.