The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-11-30
Will He Succeed!

In nine cases out OF ten, no mans life
will be success if he does not bear bur
dens in his childhood. If the fondness or
the vanity Of father or mother kept him
from contact with hard work; if another
always helped him out at the end of his
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 Sinking has
become habit-unless miracle is
wro : his life will be failure, and
the blame will not be half as much his as
that Of weak, foolish parents.
On the other hand, if boy has been
brought up to do his part; never allowed
to shirk any legitimate responsibility, or
permitted to dodge work, whether or not
it made his back ache, or soiled his hands,
until bearing heavy burdens became a
matter of pride, the heavy end of the
wood his from choice-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 at
some time and in some way the world
will recognize his capacity.
Take another point. Money is the OBJ
ject of the worlds pursuit 1t is legiti-
mate 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 more or less on his ability to earn
money, and somewhat upon the amount
of his possessions. If he is miserably
poor, it either argues some defect in his
business ability, some recklessness in his
" &c
with men in the great battle for gold.
When country-tred boy leaves home,
it is generallyto enter upon some business
and he will succeed just in proportion as
he has been made to earn and save in his
childhood.
If all the money he has had has come
of planting little patch in the spring,
and selling its produce after weary months
If watching and toll in the fall, or from
killing woodchucks at six cents a head,
or from trapping muskrats, and selling
their skins for a 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 neigh
Dor, moonli ght 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 worlc
On the contrary, if the boy never
earned a dollar; if parents and friends al
ways keep him in spending money-pen-
MES to buy candy and fish-hooks, satisfy
his imagined wants-and he has grown to
manhood in the expectancy that the world
will generally treat him with similar con-
sideration, he will always be a make
shift; and the fault is not so much his as
that of those about him, who never made
the boy depend upon himself-did not
make him wait six months to get money
to replace lost jack-knife.
Everybody has to rough it at one time
or another. If the roughing comes in
boyhood, it does good; if later, When hab-
its are formed, it is equally tough; but
not being educational, is generally use
less. And the question as to whether a
young man will succeed in making money
or not depends not upon where he goes or
what he does, but upon his willingness
to do "his part,' and upon his having
earned money, and so gained knowledge
of its worth. Not little of this valuable
experience and knowledge 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.-Humaue
Journal.