The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-11-07
VOLUME 25-NUMBER 4
viii He Succeed?

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Ii nine cases out Of ten no mans
life will be a success if he does hot
bear burdens in childhood. II the
tOndness or vanity Of his father or
mother have kept him from hard
labor; if another always helped him
out OF the end Of q row; if, instead OF
taking his turn at pitching of, he
always moved away at 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 had
been permitted TO shirk until shirking
had become q habit-unless a miracle
is wrought, his life will,be q failure,
and the blame will not be half so
much his IS that Of his weak, foolish
parents,
On the other hand, if a boy has
been brought up 10 do his part, never
allowed to shirk any legitimate respOn-
sibility, or to dodge work, whether or
not II made his back ache or his
hands bisc6-Untll bearing heavy bur
dens becomes a matter OF pride, the
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 some time and
in some way the world will recognize
his capacity. Take another point.
Money j. the object of the worlds
pursuit. II gives bread and clothes
and home and comfort. The world
has not judged wholly unwise when it
has made the position he occupies 10
hinge comparatively, more or less on
his ability to earn money, and on
the amount Of his possession. If he is
niserably poor, it argues some defect
in his expenditures, OF lack Of 1T
ness to cope with men in the battle
for gold. When a country boy leaves
homes il 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
10 earn and save in his childhood.
II all the money he has had comes
of planting a little patch in the spring,
and selling its produce, after weary
months OF watching and toll, in the
fali-Or from killing wOOd-chucks at
six cents a head-or from trapping
muskrats and selling their skins for
shilling snares in the fall for
game, and walking miles in the morn
ing corn for q neighbOr at two cents q
q 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 a boy never
earns q eent-if parents and friends
had alWas kept him in spending mon
ey-pennies TO buy candles, and to
satisfy his imaginative way-and he
has grown to manhood in the expec-
fancy that the world will generally
treat him with similar consideration,
he will always be a make-shift. And
the fault is not 80 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 a lost jaek-knife.
Every one has to rough it at one
time or another. If the roughing
comes in bOyhOOd, it does good; if
later when habits are formed, it is
equally tough, but not being educa-
tiOnal, is generally useless. And the
question whether young man will
make money or not, depends upon his
willingness to do ''his part" and up
on his having earned money, and SO
gained q knowledge of its worth. Not
q little of his valuable experience the
country boy gets on the old farm, un-
der the tutelage of parents shrewd
enough TO see the end from the begin
ming, and to make the labor and grief
OF children contribute to tile success
Of subsequent life.