The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-07-11

terial" and the ability is needed
in the present age of the world ;
something more than stocking your
office, putting up presses and lay
ing i'll supply of ink, cardboard
and paper; something more than
swinging out your sign to let the
passers know that "printing is done
here )" something more than putting
your imprint upon only artistic
work, and that is Push!
Two men of equal ability and
equally provided may start in the
race and one tar Outstrip the other.
Success does not depend SO much
upon what one can do as showing
it. 1t does not answer to throw out
IA line even with an attractive bait.
The public bite cautiously, especial
ly when anything beyond the known
and old fashioned is offered, aud
they will not come to you except
when driven by necessity. Push
accomplishes wonders, when the
want of it is productive Of failure.
Taking things easy" never yet
amounted to much. The hook that
hangs dead or rests upon the bot
tom catches only suckers. 1t is the
quickly moving, the alive, that at.
tracts valuable fish. "Waiting for
something to turn up" is Il Micaw-
berism that does not answer in an
age rushed along by steam and
talking by lightning. You have
got to keep up with, keep at the
head of the crowd, or you will be
jostled aside or mercilessly tramp
led under foot. Human life now is
something of ii stampede, and the
weak and taltering are ground to
nothingness.
Push triumphs where sloth is
beaten. 1t is the driving wheel of
the mighty engine of business
laundering down the "incline" and
lifting over the "divide." Push
stands not hesitatingly on the brink
waiting for the treshet to subside,
but pIunges in and grapples brave
ly for the prize. Push accomplishes
while the lack of it is thinking how
something can best be done. Push |
is the lever that raises the load |
while hesitation is looking about |
for something that will answer for |
a fulcrum. Push overleaps the |
,hasm without waiting tor the
of bridge and is as
water to the wheel and electricity
% the telegraph.
The man who would succeed |
must push his way along-not be
to be crowded by others.
Business life is race wherein the
majority desire to arrive first at
he goal where there is little regard
or the feelings of others; where
very ono is sternly bent upon
loing the best possible for himself,
md to his Satanic majesty is con-
igned the hindermost. Nowadays
he fable of the hare aud the tor
oise is reversed. Slow-plodding
ndeavOr (as rule) is completely
barriers are overleaped
It bOund, and the slow process
f tunneling is lett to the blind
lOle, while the keen-eyed eagle
kiDs above the lOftiest peak.
Waiting is often failure. While
'e are idly thinking aud dreaming
mother sllatches the prIze. Little
Ime is given tor consideration.
decision has to be promptly made.
will not answer oput 1t off until
)-morrow; a Thousand chances and
hanges may occur before then.
he axle upon which the world used
} slowly and steadily revolve in
De olden time appears to have {
cen well fabricated to have been
1bbed of fraction toturn without
governor; TO have been supplied
18th a driving power and fly wheel {
t matchless strength aud size. {
Ian pushes his way even from the '
radle. TIE boy leaps into the a
lace of the man and puts on the n
arness of BUSINESS before anything 4
Ike the old believed-in ''discretion"
as come to his years. Business
one continual push, and each Z
ne engaged in it forces his way n
the front rank, in a greater or e
IS degree; like the regiment of b
rtemus Ward, all are captains O