Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-08-14
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aoSp, Agricultural kditor Oxford Democra
Paris. Ne.
AS IS The BOY, so WILL Be THE MAN
Could reach them would talk tc
every farmers boy In the United States
Observing so many of them as | have
from their early childhood up to young
manhood and In later life, when they
had children OF their own gathered about
them. and noticing the great difference
between them as regards SUCCESS OF
fsilare In life, whether poor, med um oI
good farmers, whether men OF mural OF
immoral habits, good neighoors or bad,
| am constrained 10 inquire OF myself
whence this great disparity Of present
condition among those brought up in
the same neighborhood, perhspi, and
who started on the journey Of life Ia
equal or similar eonditionss Somt we'll
to-do parents give their boys financial
start in life, but such seem To fail OF
success as frequently In proportion 10
with only their bands and brains 70 aid
them. This subject is so broad and deep
that only point or two can be con slider
ed In brief newspaper article as this
must be.
Over and above sll other conslders-
lions Is the fact that boys who are will
ing and anxious TO make Themselves
useful 20 their parents or guardians from
the first mp TO their majority are ecs NOM
icsl and industrious and always sue
eeed soundsntly In later life, provided
no accident befslls them; while those
who when young shirk labor, are fond
OF hunting and fishing, run out nights
with other boys, and who are usually
found where any kind Of "sport" 8 oc-
curing, are the boys whose whole life
history can be anticipated by writing In
big letters the word failure" The
highway OF life Is strewn shockngly
thick with such corpses. IL the boy
does not follow the right path before he
Is OF age he never will travel therein.
IL may seem strange statement to
make when aver that every boy over
eight or ten years Of age is either ms king
or losing money every day, whether he
Is receiving any cash payment OF not.
Let me explain. know . young man,
farmers boy, who WAS always fsi lhful
70 his parents and did well everything
given him 10 do. When seventeen he
spent one term In q commercial school
10 get a start In bookkeeping. Al the
close OF the term he went at once 10
neighbor who Is a wealthy business man
and asked him II he could give him ZONE
subordinate place In his Office. The
msn replied, "Yes, sir, | have been
watching you several years and often
wished YOU would spply TO me for en-
ployment. Go right 10 work IS SOC n IS
YOU choose" The boy went 10 work.
he pleased his employer and to-dny Is
secretary of that company, OF which his
is president, snd the boy gets
q salary Of $500, and he is not yet
years old. Did not that boy
make money every day the rich nan
WAS watching him? His fsithfulnes' TO
little things-to all things that eau In
his way, Is what Il making fortune for
him, as Il would for sny other boy who
acted similarly. Somebody Is watching
every boy, and this somebody will tell
other somebodies, until the boys char
xcter Is known as far as he is known.
Business men are always watching for
capable help. Industrious, faithful hoys
do not have 10 seek employment, for Il
seeks them.
Three or four years ago q distant
charitable institution with farm at
tsched wanted the services OF q
straight" capable young farmer as
foreman Of the farm. l knew just so IN =
one that could be had. | sent him, and
he pleased exceedingly well. The rext
year he had 20 return on account OF sick
ness in his fathers family. At home he
worked for wages or the farm on shares.
He saved sll the money he earned except
that needed for personal expenses. Last
spring he purchased near me fSrtn,
think Of one hundred scres, upon which
are a nice, two-story dwelling house and
a large, modern barn. He Is hardly
years old YET. OF course,
he had not vet had time 20 earn mo1ey
enough 70 pay for the farm and get
start with team and tools. But he paid
whst he could and friends helped
him out. They hsd watched him IS all
bows sre watched, and knew he would
soon clear himself OF debt. When a
Young man arrives at the age OF twenty
one, IL he possesses reputation Tor
honesty, industry, economy and morality,
it will be worth more 10 him than a
osnknote for 5000. IL would be inter-
esting 20 know what proportion OF The
bows who read this will strive TO earn
that 5000 in the way suggested.-New
York Tribune.