The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-04-07
WILL HE SUCCEED.

In nine cases out of ten no mans life
Will be success if lie does not bear
burdens in his childhood. If the fond.
ness or the vanity of n father or moth.
or have kept him from hard work; il
another always helped him out of the
end of his row; If, instead of taking his
turn at pitching of, he moved away all
the time-in short, if what was light
always fell to him, and what was heavy
about the same work always fell to
some one else /; If he has been permitted
TO shirk till Sinking has become a hab-
1t-unless miracle is wrought, his life
will be a failure, and the blame will not
be half so much his as that of his weak,
foolish parents.
On the other hand, if boy has been
brought up to do his part, never allow
ed to shirk any legitimate responsible
ty, or to dodge work, whether or not it
made his head ache, or soiled his hands
until bearing heavy burdens became
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, and at some time and in some
way the world will recognize his ca
pacity.
Take another point. Money is the
object of the worlds pursuit. 1t is a
legitimate object. 1t gives bread and
clothing and homes and comfort. The
world has not judged wholly unwisely
when it has made the position a man
occupies to hinge comparatively more
or less on his ability to earn money, and
somewhat on the amount of his posses
sions. If he is miserably poor it argues
either some defect in his expenditures,
or lack of fitness to cope with men in
the battle for gold.
When q cOuntry-bred boy leaves
home 1t 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 child
hood.
If all the money he has had has come
from planting a little patch in the
spring, and selling its produce after
weary months of watching and toll in
the fall, or from killing woodchucks at
six cents head, or from trapping
muskrats and selling their skius for q
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 neighbor moon
light 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 the boy never
earned dollar if parents and friends
had always kept him in spending mon
ey-pennies to buy candies and fish
hooks, and Salty his imaginative wants
and he has grown to his manhood in
the expectancy that the world will gen.
orally treat him with similar considera-
ton, he will always be q make-shift
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 mon
ey to replace lost iack-knife.
Every one has to rough it at one time
or another. If the roughing comes in
boyhood, 1t does good; if later, when
habits are formed, it is equally tough,
but not being educational, it is gener-
ally 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
to do "his part, and upon
his having earned money, and so gain
ed q knowledge of its worth. Not a
little of his valuable experience and
the country boy gets on the
Did farm, under the tutelage of parents
'hrewd enough to see the end from the
and to make the labor and
grief of children contribute to the sue
,ess of subsequent life.-Hedrth and
Home.