New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-24
COUNTRY OR CITY FOR YOUNG MEN

OBSTACLES TO SUCCESS IN THE CITY-DRAwBACKs
To LIFE IN TIE COUNTRY-How TO MAKE
COUNTRY LIFE PLEAsASTER.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR: To follow up your remarks about young
mems aockng great cities 10 nd some OF the m the
suicides grave the country places themselves are sadly IN
need OF these young crying out 10 them TO remain
AZ home and do there the work that lies their very DOORS
instead OF looking afar off for possible place to I'LL The
mere fact that there is such desire to escape the cou
try il proof that there flaws in which need remedy
Why will they who go up pennies and frlendess TO
the big cities remain at home and make remedies !
There is far average chance to gain maine and
do good there than here. The old adage that IL Is bet
ter to be mouses head than rats tail" is very homely
but there il a volume OF good It, To be even the
mouses head in NewYOrk is not easy in fact this city
IL far more attractive viewed distance than near by
II is full Of palaces; but all these do not contain million
naTWnarv sfITl@ces which would amaze the farmer and
IRON which he may be thankful ne Il spared Closer
s ptons do not an cOngregate among what are called
the moor thew hold high reve III the proud avenues Of
this fair city well as in it, meaner streets.
No city Is large enough for all men. even the most
worthy TO become famous in its accepted When
one man, who after much struggling has made n me
steps down Of life. only and no more, can take
ms place; and IL j. pretty certain that the young man
who has not had sufficient energy 70 ind place IN his
own native will not he the one 70 take IT, In tne
oous windngs OF city very few really succeed,
and it these few remember forgetting the o0rthou
went down IN the sruggle-forgettng TOO me
long list OF those who have lost the fort they gained
not unfrequently at the price OF health and reai nap
pness. Prosperity has way OF taxing mem breath away
making them cl sdnd leaving item stranded ana per
haps without their first capital of youth and health and
energy. But only remember the hr't successes AMI
forget The final failures.
The great cities, i: must be confessed, offer, "a rule
great advantages but they demand TOO great capital
young going into them ngst should choose "a time
when business is alive not dead when there is demand
for more. instead or thousands clanOrihg iOr tne one
chance Then, % succeed and avoid shpwrecA in great
financial and commercial centers, he must be possessed
OF unusual energy ana judgment ana pa'ence must nave
unswerving OF probty and an unshrinung de-
the iun neni OF ali contracts and obligations
Those two opposite quantities, Dodhess ana Gautlou
qualities which all do not pOSse-s-are also lnds-
pensable in the long run, 10 city success BCldness
enough undertake operations sufficiently vast 70 meet
the large cost of great caution enough To
administer this business 10 keep IN cheek the tenpt
tons enter into doubtful tansdetohS OF " CONTRACT
with those unworthy tie fullest confidence and trust
How many men, then ms De true are ntleI 10 run
long the feyerish race All think they ale nited IN
the great crowd falls.
But if young men leave their country homes without
those high aspirations which are 10 consnnmate III the
great merchants the great editors career, ana ask
simply 10 find obscure place, jogging along evenly
with the noisy crowd should SUI say Bette stay az
home there many rough jOits even IN Wht ~ called
Jogging along in big city. There stands more tndl one
scholar here measuring goods oelru . counter VI re-
tli store and thal one New-Iork ear conductor
built for himself higher place In his castle than he has
found. Better remain at home and nj yourself mo an
honorable and useful place there, rather thah rush I'M
pusively the great city, TO tina nuinDeress others,
equally worthy lamentng their fallen lot, or standing
altogether idle. , -. - . -,
famous for their way OF pesantness nor Tor ther gh
moral status The village railway depot and the country
gather within tien poison enough
community; while country tavern Will make city ae-
house blush. Coarse IN small communities csiic IN
contact only with one another; the Agber natures,
by reason OF the closer society lines drawn IN
small places, hold apart hence the good ana the
refined being absent, the bad ana use VICIOUS
become constantly exaggerated. IL Ia very easy
10 see how young with pure minds anu high ashra-
tons may long with great resessness for the noisy
world outside their reach But why Will not these Young
uen 20 work and make attractive their town sur
roundngsi public building for instance, with gen
erous library and readng-roOm conee-roon, and ball
and bardrOom, and ecture-hall, should not be such
very difficult thing TO build In country place.
and could be more than selI-supporting Yet
country places, unless they are Large AMI near
big cities, always without such iDsu
| tuiiOns. one attraction leads 10 another: but
cannot be altogether attractive unless those
who live in it have energy enough 10 make IL The
village chuch and an occasional temperance lecture in
the tow hall not powerful enough TO empty tayeTns
aud send idle home TO wives, and books, and
children powerful enough 10 answer the aspirations of
the gentlemen OF Tie community, and keep them rom
lOungng for the city cXCitemcnts Remedies for great
evils lie deeper than IN simple eHhOrations, ana
substitutes fOr ainusements substitutes reaching
both aud wOmenl must DE offered before the evils
De eT.dicated II iS possible that II one-hat OF the
money that sent Dy the churches Of Sewiork 10
foreign missions u-edby each church Tor me supp orr
of hall, Win library and reading, and unci-roOhl ana
wine and Der~en attached, II need De, lnteIPefihce
in few Yeas would be- entirely eradcalcd We ichi
away IN Tor NEEDLES that lie jst under our ihns hhu
fall into the ditch while are looking al the Stars
Aeg York, NAY 10, 1870. NJ (. K