The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-23
HONESTY, INDUSTRY AND COURAGE
A sketch for Boys and Mothers.

YOUTHS Companion, March Il
In this free country of. ours there is no royal
road 10 prosperity. The road is open to all; to
the poor boy in the country well as to the
son of wealthy parents, possessing all the So
called advantages which the city affords, and it
often happens that the former outstrips the lat
ter in the race. The key to success lies in three
things Honesty, Industry and Courage. Hon.
esty in all things is the very essence of the
right, and commands the respect and conf
denee of all. Industry is the constant use of
the faculties which God has given to every
one; and Courage is what makes men self-re-
liant and bold to act upon their own judgment.
promptly and to good purpose.
In a 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 drug store of Samuel
Kidder, in Lowell, Mass Mr.. Kidder was the
soul OF integrity and honor, 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 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 in
junction to have Honesty, Industry and Cour-
age 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
boy. Inconsistencies came to him. and often
when at work the tears would come when he
thought OF his home and his mother. But with
them came her Injunction to be brave. and so
the little fellow kept at his work, determined
to have Honesty, Industry and Courage, con-
fdent 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, aud they will show you
a brick building go feet long and four stories
high, devoted 10 an industry which this boy,
single and alone, has created. They will show
you that it is filed with men and women who
have pleasant honorable, and profitable en-
ployment because this boy was Honest Indus
tri0us and Brave. They will show you huge
tanks IN which remedy of worldwide fame is
prepared, 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 misrepresentng or misleading
them by his advertisements; that what he offers
Is really sold, and what his advertisements say
is believed; that it is because he has been In
dustrious, and has wasted neither time, money
nor opportunity that his means have steadily
increased: and that it is because he has had
the Courage to believe in the merits of his
remedy, and in the willingness of the public to
buy thing really good, that his business has
attained ITS present proportions. Here is a
IcsSou loI bOsS--ytS, anu LOT DOinefSt Tor Inere
Is not a mother in the land to-day before whose
son the opportunity does not lie to be rs sue.
cesSful and prosperous, and TO do as much
good TO his fellOwmen as Chas. |. Hood, oil
Lowell, a man whose name is a 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 questioned
his Industry is proved by the fact that he is the
| haTdest-wOrked man in his establishment; and
as for his Courage, no one will question that
who knows the absolute GOODNESS with which
he expends hundreds of thousands of dollars a
year in advertising, because he knows that
Hoods Sarsaparila will do all that he claims
for it, and that the public only needs to be
told of its virtues to lead them TO buy it.
More about this man and the extensive bust
ness he has built mp may be learned from
very Elegant book, entitled Hoods Sarsapar
lila Laboratory Illustrated" just published. II
is printed on the finest plate paper, contains
fourteen full-page wood engravings has hand
some cover printed in blue and gold and will
be sent on receipt of a two-cent stamp by c.
Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.