Year: 1872




In nine cases out of ten no mans life
will be success if he does not bear bur-
d.ns 10 his childhood II the fondness or
the vanity OF father and mother kept him
from contact With hard work ; if another
always helped him out at the end of hi.
row. if, instead OF taking his turn at pitch
ing off, be moved all the iime-in short, if
what was light always fell to him, and what
was heavy about the same work to some
one else if he has been peruitted to shlrk
until shirkng has become habit-unless
a miracle is wrought his lite will be fail
ure, and the blame will not be half as much
his as that of weak, foolish parents On
the other hand if boy has been brought
up to his part never allowed to shirk any
legitimate responsibility, or permitted to
dodge work, whether or not it made bis
back ache, or soled his hands, until bear
ing heavy burdens became matter of
pride; the heavy end OF wood his from
choice. parents, as they bid him good bye
may dismiss their fears. His lite will not
be business failure The elements OF
success are his, aud at some time aud in
some way the world will recognize his Ca
pacity.


Take another point. Money is the OBJ
ject of the worlds pursuit. 1t is legiti-
mate object. 1t gives bread and clothing,
homes and comfort. he world has not
jud ged wholly upwisely when it has made
the position man occupies to hinge more
or less On his ability to earn money, and
ha ofh
sions If he is mserably p,or it either
argues some defect in his business ablity,
some rccklessness in his expenditures, CT u
lack Of fitness to cope with men in the great
battle Tor gold. When country bred boy
leaves home it is generally to enter upon
some business, the end of which is to ac-
aure property, and he will succeed just in
proportion as he has been made to earn and
save in his childhood If all the money
he has had has come of planting little
patch in the spring, aud selling its produce.
after weary mouths OF watching in the fall,
or from killing woodchucks at six cents Il
head !; or from trapping muskrats and sell
ing their skins for a shllliug; setting snares
for game aud walking miles to sell them III
the morning before the old folks were up /;
huskiug corn for nelghbor moonlight
even ngs at two cents bushel working
out an occasional day that hard work at
hone has made possible-he is good to
make his way in the world.


On the contrary, if the boy never earn
ed dollar ; if parents and friends always
kept him in spending money ennies to
buy candy and ishhuoks, and satisfied his
imaginary wauts-and he has grown to
manhood with expectancy that the world
will generally treat him with similar con
sideration, he will always be ke-shitt,
and the fault is not So much his as those
about him, who never made the boy de-
pend upon himseli-did not make him
wait six months to get money to replace "a
lost jack-kuife.


Everybody has to rough it at one time
or another If the roushng comes in hoy
hood, it does good if later, VIII, D habits
are formed, it is equally tough, but not be-
ing educational is generally useless. Aud
the question as to whether IA youth will
succeed or not depends not upon where he
goes or what be does, but upon his having
earned money and SO gained knowledge
of its worth Not little this valuable ex-
pcrience aud knowledge the country boy
gets on the old farm, under the tuteiage OF
parents shrewd enough to SEE the end from
the beginning and to make the labor and
grief Of children contribute to the success
of subsequent life-Hearth and Home.