The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-11-08
Hard Fork IN Youth.

Hard Work IN Youth
Many young people are impatient in
the work to be done as clerks, or of sub
ordinate positions, and are eager to make
fortunes without the long and painful
toll which is essential to success. They
may learn something from the experience
of Vice President Wilson, He says of
himself I feel that 1 have a right to
speak for toiling and to toiling men. I
was born here in your county of Stafford.
was born in poverty want sat by my
cradle. [ know what it is to ask a
mother for bread when she had none to
give. left my home at 10 years of age,
and served an apprenticeship of eleven
years, receiving a months schooling each
year, and, at the end of eleven years of
hard work, yoke of oxen and six sheep.
which brought me $84.
never spent the amount of one 81
OF money, counting every penny, from
the time was born till was 81 years of
age. know what it is to travel weary
miles, and ask my fellow-men to give me
leave to toll. [ remember in October.
1888, walked into your village from
my native town, went through your mills
seeking employment. If any body had
offered me 50 month should have ac-
cepted it gladly. L went to Salem Falls.
L went to Dover, I went to Newmarket.
and tried to get work, without success.
and returned home footsore and weary
but not discouraged.
put my pack on my back and walked
to where now live in Massachusetts.
and learned a mechanics trade. know
the hard lot that toiling men have to en-
dure IN this world, and every pulsation
OF my heart, every conviction of nv
Judgment, every aspiration of my soul,
puts me on the toiling side of nv
country, aye, of all countries.
The first month I worked after was
Il years of age, went into the woods.
drove team, cut mill logs and wood, rose
III the morning before daylight, and
worked hard till after night, and re-
celved the magnificent sum of Sc Each
OF these dollars locked as large, too, as
the moon looks tonight.
Believe in travelling step by step; do
not expect to get rich at jump. Slow
and sure is better than fast and fiimsv.
Perseverance, by its daily gains. en-
riches man more than fits and starts of
fortune and speculation. Every day a
thread, makes skein in a year. Brick
by brick houses are built. We should
creep before we walk, walk before we
run, and run before we ride. In getting
rich, the more haste the less speed.
Haste trips up its own heels. Don't
give up small business till YOU see
that large one will pay you better.
Even crumbs are bread. Better little
furniture than an empty house. In these
hard times, he who can sit on a stone
and feed himself had better not move
From bad to worse is a Door improve-
ment. A crust is hard fare, bit none at
all IS harder. Don't jump out of the
frylng-pan into the fire. Remember
men have done well in very small shops.
little trade with profit is better than
large fire that burns you A great deal
OF water may be got from a small pine.
II the bucket is always there to catch.
Large bears may be caught in small
woods. A sheep may get fat in small
meadow, and starye in a great desert.
He who undertakes too much succeeds
but IN little " estegn Recorder.