No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 633 



SUCCESS. 



By K. A. HBKSHBERGER, Cessna, Pa. 



If there is one thing inure than another which fills the thought 

 of every young man and woman in the land, it is the desire to 

 make a success in life. No one is worthy the name of man or woman 

 who has not enough ambition to try to make a success of life. 



What constitutes true success? Let us mention a few things that 

 are necessary and essential to success: First. We should not be 

 neglectful of the comforts and happiness of those about us. Life 

 is not a real success which finds its motive power in the thought, 

 that money-getting is the great object in life. A man may accumu- 

 late the wealth of a Vanderbilt or an Astor and yet his life be a 

 complete failure so far as the nobler life within him is concerned. 

 It is not how big the bank account is or how big the vault which 

 carries our earthly treasures, that attest the victory of living. No, 

 it is not this that has been your thought in accumulating money. 



Has it been that you might be of some service to your fellow-man? 

 That you might help and relieve those about you less fortunate than 

 yourself? If your only motive has been to minister to your own 

 selfish comfort and luxury, in the heaping up of gold, then your life, 

 1 say, is a miserable failure. Are you living with the one though! 

 of how you can serve your selfish ambition and rise to places of 

 influence simph T to gratify a selfish need of power? 



Surely such a life none, judging by right standards, will name 

 as impelled, by proper motives, neither can it be called in any sense 

 successful. Understand I am not begrudging any one the wealth 

 which they may possess, because I do not possess any myself. I do 

 not belittle the power of money or the ambition in gaining it, or 

 the influence that culture and intellectual power bring with it, but 

 1 do say it is a shame to figure from such accumulation of riches or 

 power alone an answer of success. 



That life is a real success which blesses as it goes, which, while it 

 enriches self, enriches others which, while it accumulates power, 

 lifts others with it. 



Second. Another element of success is economy. By this we mean 

 the management, regulation or supervision of means or resources, 

 especially the management of the home, the farm and the concerns 

 of a household; hence, a frugal and judicious use of money, material 

 and time, the avoidance of waste or extravagance in the manage- 

 ment or use of anything, frugality in the expenditures of money 

 and material. 



In the care of important matters, public and private, the largest 

 safety is to be assured by reposing confidence in (hose who have 

 faithfully and habitually enforced for themselves the policy of wise 

 economy. Observe the examples of Washington and Jefferson. 

 Reading their papers it will be seen with what scrupulous care they 

 administered their households. Washington, in camp with the cares 

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