Year: 1872

In nine cases out of ten no mans
life will be a success if he does not
bear burdens in childhood. If the
fondness or vanity of his father or
mothor have kept him from hard Ia
Dor; if another always helped him
out Of the end Of arrow; il, instead Of
taking his turn at pitching of, he al
ways moved away all the time-in
short if what was light always fell
to him and what was heavy about
the same work to some one elsel if
he had been permitted to shirk until
shirking had become a habit unless
a miracle is wrought his life viii be
failure, and the blame viii not be
half so much his as that of his weak,
foolish parents.


On the other hand, if boy has
been brought up to do his part, new
er allowed to shrink any legitimate
responsibility, or to dodge work,
whether or not it made his heart ache
or his hands black-untn bearing
heavy burdens becomes a matter Of
pride, the parents as they bid him
good-by, may dismiss their fears.
His life will not be a business fail
ure. The elements Of success are
his, and some time and in some way
the world will recognize his capacity.
Take another point. Money is the
object of the worlds pursuit. It
gives bread and clothes home and
comfort. The world has not judged
wholly unwise when it has made the
position he occupies to hinge COM
paratively, more or less on bis abil-
ity to earn money, and on the
amount of his profession. If he is
miserably poor, it argues some de-
feet in his expenditures, or a lack of
fitness to scope with men in the bat
tie for gold. When a country boy
leaves home it is generally to enter
upon some business, the end Of
which is to acquire property; and he
will succeed just in proportion as ne
has been made to earn and save in
his childhood.


If all the money he has had comes
Of planting 3 little patch in spring,
and selling its produce, after weary
months Of watching and toll, in the
fall--or or from killing woodchueks
at six cents a head-or from trap
ping muskrats and selling muskrats
setting snares in the fall for game,
and walking miles in the morning
before the old folks were up-husk-
ing corn for a neighbor for two
cents a Dushel-working out an oc-
casional day that hard work at home
has made possible-he is good to
make his pile in the world.


On the contrary, if a boy never
earns a cent-if parents and friends
had always kept him in spending
money@pennies to buy candies, and
to satisfy his every Want-and he
had grown to manhood in tire ex-
pectency that the world win gener-
aIly treat him with 8 similar cOnsid-
Grafton, he will always be a make
shift. And his fault is not so much
his as that Of those about him who
never made the boy depend on him
self-did not make him wait six
months to get money to replace a
lost iack-knife.


Every one has to rough it at one
time or another. If the roughing
comes in boyhOod, it does good; if
latter when habits are formed, it is
equally taught, but not being educa-
tional, is generally useless. And the
question whether a young man will
make money or not depends upon his
willingness to do "his part" and up
on his having earned money, and 80
gained a knowledge of its worth. Not
little Of his valuable experience,
the country boy gets on the old farm,
under the tutelage Of parents shrewd
enough to see the end from the be-
gcnnmg, and to make the labor and
grief Of children contributs to the
success of subsequent life,