The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-10-06
VIII He Succeed.

III ulHc CosCs OuI OI ten no man
life will be q success if he does no
bear burdens In childhood. If tn
fondness or vanity Of father or moth
er have kept him from hard labor
if another always helped him on. o
the end of the row; II, instead o
taking his turn at pitching of, b
moved away all the time-in shor
if what was light always fell to him
and what was heavy about the sam
work to some one else he has beel
permitted to shirk till shrinking ha
become habit-unless q miracle /
wrought, his life will be q failure
and the blame will not be halt b
much his as that of weak, foolisl
parents. -
On the other part, If a boy ha
been brought up to do his part nev
er allowed to shirk any legitimat,
responsibility, on to dodge work
whether or not it made his hear
ache or his hands black-until bear
ing heavy becomes q matter Of pride
the heavy end of the wood his form
choice-parents, as they bid hin
good bye may dismiss their fears
His life will not be business failure
The elements of success are his, anG
at some time and in some way thu
the world will recognize his cap
acity. ,ce = q. ,.-.e. :.
Take another point. Money il
the obiet of the worlds pursuier. i,
gives bread and clothing and homes
and comfort. The world has moi
judged wholly unwisely when il
has made the position q man occu.
pies to hinge Comparatively more OF
less on his ability to earn money and
somewhat on the amount of his
possession. If he is miserably poor,
it argues some defect in his eIpend-
itures, or lack fitness to cope with
men in the battle for gold.
When a country boy leaves homo
it is generally to enter upon some
business, the end of which is to &C
quire property, and he will 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 fall OR from killing
woodchucks at six cents a head-or
trapping muskrats and selling their
skins for shilling-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-he is good to make
his pile in the world.
On the contrary, if aboy never
earned a dollsr-if parents and
friends had always kept him in spen-
ding mOney-pennies 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 make-shii. And the
fault is not so much his as 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 lost jack knife.
Every one has to rough it 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-
tionsl, is generally useless. And
The question whether young man
will 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
I'd money, and so gained a know
edge of its worth. Not q little of
his valuable experience the country
boy gets on the old farm, under the
of parents shrewd enough to
see the end from the beginning, and
% make the labor and grief of chill
lren contribute to the success of sub
life. -'