Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-07-18
WILL HE SUCCEED?

In nine cases out of ten no mans life will
be a success if he does not bear burdens in
childhood. IF the fondness or the vanity OF
father or mother have kept him from hard la
Dor; if another always helped him out of the
end of the 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 till Striking has become q habit-unlesa
a miraclei is ought, 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 part, ifa boy has been brought
up to do his part, never allowed to shirk any
legitimate responsibility, or to dodge work,
whether or not it made his heart ache or his
hands black-until bearing heavy burdens
becomes matter of pride, the parents, as they
bid him goodbye, may dismiss their fears.
His life will not be business failure. The ele-
ments ofsuccess 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 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 paratively more or less on his abili-
ty to earn money, and on the amount of his
professions. Ifhe is miserably poor, it argues
some defect in his expenditures, or lack of
fitness to cope with men in the battle for gold
When country boy leaves home it is gener.
ally to enter upon some business, the end OF
which is to acquire property; and he will sue
ceed just in proportion as he has been made to
earn and save in his childhood.
Ifall the money he has had came of plant
ing 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 a head-or from trapping musk
rats and selling their skins for shilling
setting snares in the fall for game, and walk.
ing mil - in the morning before the old folks
were up-husking corn for neighbor, on
moonlight evenings, at two cents bushel-
working out an occasional day that hard work
athome has made possible-hc is good to make
his pile in the world
On the contrary, if boy never earned a
dollar-if parents and friends had always
kept him in spending moncy-pennies to buy
candies and fsh.hooks, and to satisfy his i'm
imaginative wants-and he had grown to man
hood in the expectancy that the world will
generally treat him with similar all consideration,
he will always bea 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
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 later, when habits are formed
it is equally tough, but, not being educational
is generally useless. And the question wheth-
er young man will succeed in making money
or not depends but upon his willingness to do
"his part" and upon his having earned mon
ey, and 50 gained knowledge of its worth.
Not little of his valuable experience 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 Ia
Dor and grief Of children contribute to the
success Of subsequent life.