Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-02-08
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u he does not bear tVtdsns n bis child
hood. 1T the foSnanSeS q lhes vanitv
ce iathss 3 g q + n?eh s ehef tsPt bin from con-
!act with hard yotk; II another aIksys
helped hin out tQ the end uf his ron;
u instead ol lt.king his turn, q spitching
oE he ncxed Away; su the. 6ms-in
short, ifI what vaa Light sslvays feh to
bin, and what was heavy, about the
same work 10 .osshae one else; II he -hss
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Or. The other hand. il : boy has been
brought up TO do his part; never allowed
to shirk any legitimate responsibility, or
permitted TO dodge work. whether or
not II made his back ache, or soiled his
hand, until bearing heavy bufde ms be-
came 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 bus
mess failure. The elements OF success
are his, and at some time end in some
way the world will recognize. his capa-
city. Take another point. Money is
the object Of the worlds pursuit. II is
a legitimate object. ftgives bread, and
clothing, and homes, and comfort. The
world has not judged vholly unwi.ely
when !, has made the position man
occupies to hinge more or less on his
ability to earn money, and somewha,
upon the amount Of his possessions. II
he is miserably poor, It either argues
some defect in his business ability some
recklessness in his expenditures, or a
lack Of fitness to cope with men in the
great battle for gold. '7'
When q country-bred boy leaves
home. ii is generally to enter upon some
business the end Of which is 10 acquire
property. and he will succeed Just in
proportion as he has been made 10 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 of watching and toll in the fall,
or from killing woodchucks at six cents
head, or from trapping muskrats, and
selling their skins for 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
a neighbor, moonlight evenings, at two
cents bushel; working out an occas-
ional day that hard work at home has
made possible--he is good to make his
pile in the world.
On the contary, If the boy never
earned dollar; if parents and friends
always keep him in spending money
pennies to buy candy and fi>h hooks,
satisfy his imagined wants and he has
grown to manhood in the expectancy y
that the world will generally treat him
with similar consideration, he will al
ways be a make-shift: and the fault is
not so much bis as that Of those abou,
him, who never made the bov depend
upon himseli-did not make him wait
six months to get money to replace a
lost jack-knife.
Everybody has to rough IL at one time
or another. II the roughing comes in
boy-hood, it does good; il later, when
habits are formed. il is equally tough;
but not being educational. is generally
useless. And the question as to wheth.
er a young man viii succeed in making
money or not depends not upon where
he goes OF what he does, but upon his
willingness to do "his part" and upon
his having earned money, and SO gained
a knowledge of his worth. Not little
of this valuable experience and knowl-
edge the country boy gets on the old
farm, under the tutelage of parents
shrewd enough 10 see the end from
the beginning, and 10 make the labor
and grief of children contribute 10 the
success Of subsequent life.