The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-14
Honesty, Industry and Courage.
A SKETCH FOR BOYS AND MOTHERS.

In this free country of ours there is no
royal road to prosperity. The road is open
to ALTO the poor boy in the country as
well as to the son of wealthy parents, pos
sessing all the so-called advantages which
the city affords, and it often happens that
the former outstrips the latter in the race.
The key to success lies in three things:
honesty, industry and courage. Honesty
in all things is the very essence of the right
and commands the respect and confidence
of all. Industry is the constant use of the
faculties which God has given to every one,
and courage is what makes men self-reliant
and bold to act upon their own judgment
promptly and to good purpose.
In little farming town in Vermont lived
a lad of fifteen years with his parents.
Word came from an older brother that
place had been offered him in the drugstore
of Samuel Kdder in Lowell, Mass. Mr..
Kidder was the soul of integrity and honor,
a thorough man of business who carried his
Christianity into his dealings with customers.
1t was with heavy hearts that the father
and mother consented to let their boy go,
but they knew that it was for his good, and
they prayed that the lessons which they
had sought to teach him and the thought of
his home would be ever-present guards to
defend him against the temptations of the
great world, And so, with parting injunc-
ton to have honesty, industry and courage
for his rules of life, they bravely spoke the
parting words and sent him with their love
and their blessing to his new home.
1t is needless to tell all that happened to
the bow Homesickness came to him. and
often when at his work the tears would
come when he thought of his home and of
his mother. But with them came her in
junction to be brave, and so the little fellow
kept at his work, determined to have hon
esty, industry and courage, confident that
with these-for had not his father told him
so?-he could not fail to win.
And he did.
Go to Lowell to-day and they will show
you brick building two hundred fifty feet
long and four stories high, devoted to an in
dustry which this boy, single and alone, has
created They will show you that it is filled
with men and women who have pleasant,
honorable and profitable employment be-
cause this boy was honest industrious and
brave. They will show you huge tanks in
which a remedy of worldwide fame is pre-
pared to be put into millions of bottles and
sent all over the country. And they will
! tell you this boys friends and neighbors,
| that it is because he has been honest in
dealing with the public, never misrepre-
senting or misleading them by his advertise
ments that what he offers is readily sold
and what his advertisements say is believed
| that il is because he has been industrious,
! and has wasted neither time, money nor
opportunity that his means have steadily
! increased, and that it is because he has had
| the courage 10 DelleNe IN tine merits OF MS
remedy and in the willingness of the pub
lie to buy a thing really good, that his bust
ness has attained its present proportions.
Here is lesson for boys-yes, and for
mothers; for there is not a mother in the
land to-day before whose son the opportunity
does not lie to be as successful and prosper
GUS and to do as much good to his fellow.
men as Charles l. Hood of Lowell, a man
whose name is household word wherever
Sarsaparilla is used, but OF whom the world
has known but little.
" Honesty, Industry, Courage"
This has been his motto ever since he left
his home in Vermont and it is his rule OF
life to-day. His honesty no man ever ques-
toned; his industry is proved by the fac
that he is the hardest-worked man in his es
adjustment; and as for his courage no on,
will question that who knows the absolut,
GOODNESS with which he eXpends hundreds
of thousands of dollars year in adver
Using, because he knows that Hoods Sarsa
parilla will do all that he claims for II, an'
that the public only needs to be told of it
virtues to lead them to buy it,
More about this man and the extensive
business he has built up may be learne,
from a very elegant book, entitled Hood
Sarsaparilla Laboratory Illustrated JUS
published IL is printed on the finest plat
paper, contains fourteen full-page wood en-
cravings, has a handsome cover printed II
blue and gold, and will be sent on receipt q
a two-cent stamp to G. l. Hood y Co., Low
ell, Mass. Youths Companion, March !.