Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-07-17

There are two ways in which boys be-
gin life and business. There is majority
Of the boys, who a. soon a. they leave
school and are able to work and earn q
living think only Of the amount Of money
wages they can earn. The first question
with them is show much will you
payP and how easy Is the work -
That IL the question with boys who
are destined to be laborers or in the
lowest grade Of mechanical trades
The boy who begins with the end stays at
the beginning through his whole life
There Il another and smaller class which
takes q broader view. either By their own
wisdom or that Of their friends The
youth who aims to reach the highest po-
sition does not look to immediate profit.
The boy who proposes to become great
merchant Is satisfied with position like
that of servant, where he receives 50
scanty pay that 1t will not furnish him
board End clothes. He runs errands.
sweeps out. opens the doors ana makes
himself generally useful, and looks for q
reward in the distant future. When he Is
promoted 10 subordinate position where
the salary Is sufficient to board and
clothe him, he feels that he is on
the high road to fortune; and he would
not exchange places with boy who
Is earning four times as much and
has no prospect Of anything ahead. The
youth who would fit himself for the high
er professions. is obliged to work and
drudge. and pay out money for years, in
stead of receiving it. in the hope OF re-
ward in the future. II Is the reason why
professional services command higher
price than unskilled labor. The profess
sional man paid for his education besides
working without wages to obtain it. The
excsllence which commands high pay, Is
only attained by a sacrifice in the begin
ming. When boy in any pursuit makes
his first inquiry "liow much will you
give me day ?" instead Of show much
that will be useful TO me in the future can
! learn with you?" it is pretty certain that
he will be of the class mentioned in the
Scriptures a. hewers of wood and drawers
Of water from the beginning to the end OF
life. He will be always complaining that
he does not receive wages enough, where
a. the man who has laid up a capital OF
skill and knowledge when he was young
dictates to the public what il shall pay
him, and they are forced to accept his
terms The merchant who knows the
commerce Of the world. learned what he
knows at sacrifice Of time and work.
which apparently paid nothing, but which
gives him the command of the sources Of
wealth. and he has no occasion to ask for
an increase, for he can make it. 1t is the
same with all the paths to success, whether
in making money, fame, or influence, the
man who gains the highest positions must
make the greatest sacrifices in the begin
ming. Tne good old John Bunyan, in his
immortal allegory of the Pilgrims Pro-
gress. shows the whole thing in the char
acters Of Patience and Passion at the In
terpreter's house. The latter would have
all his good things first. and the former
was willing to labor and to wait, and had
the most excellent things in the end. 1t
was lesson which had been learned there,
and was as old as history, but it has to be
taught by hard experience even now,
when doctrines prevail that the thrittless
and imprudent should have the good
things of the universe. in equal proper
ton with the provident and Industrious
The boy begins wrong who looks more at
the wages he will earn for the day or the
year, than at what he will learn. as a
greater capital than money in the future.
- NeUbnrypor Herald.