Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-07-29

let your brains lie dormant! Dechuse
some have been cObblers for twenty
years, are you still to be cobDler
now? Are you mentally going to try
to do the work of the present century
In the way our forefathers did things
and not by the present up to date
methods? Are you going to resist the
advancements OF the times In the way
some nearslghted Pennsylvania farm
era did many years ago? may nor
be giving these facts exactly right
hut the story I am telling ls substan-
tally true. One Of the prominent rail-
roads OF the east was extending its
lines toward Pittsburg. The railroad
officials wanted to run their iron rails
through certain township. Inc
farmers rose up in protest. They said:
or we allow this railroad to be Dullt
n will do all the hauling. Our farms
will be broken up, and our horses VIII
no useless. because then there Will be |
nothing left for them to carry to mar
ket" These farmers not only protest
ed thus. but in the state legislative
halls at Harrisburg, through their rep
resentatiye. they defeated that railroad
from running through their township.
The result was that that rallroao
going into Pittsburg took another
course. The old farmers township Is
now sidetracked 1t Is nothing but
simple country town. On the otner
hand. the valley through which that
railroad now runs is prosperous ana
wealthy Land has doubled ana
trehled In value. There Is an inevita-
hle law of the survival Of the httest
in brains. How are you grasplng your
onportunities Are you trying to make
the world travel in stagecoaches ana
canal boats when the shrleklng
whistle of the Overland Limited Is
calling its passengers to get aboard I
II YOU do not develop your Dralns'
tban nv the law Of man and the law
Of God, to the wall you must co. Inc
survival of the fittest" is the mental
demonstration of life. Never let that
one truth out Of your mind until you
have developed your Intellect 10 l's
highest possibilities.
But the fittest survive In the morai
world as we'll as in the physical ana
the mental. The man who Is hones'
and true and noble will always, IN the
long run. win over the man VINO Is ue'
ceitful and dishonest. There Is aDso-
Intely no doubt about 1t. All otner
things being equal, there Is survlyal
Of the ittest in the moral realm. YET
70 hear some people talk you wouid
sunpose that it never pays to be hoh'
cat or truthful In business life.
"Sell where you can sell the dearest
Ruv where you can buy the cheapest
Get all of the money out Of the peopl'
Won can without landing In jail" IL
their motto. Look at P. 7. Barnum
success" they say. "ln one Oh ni'
books the great Snowman says ln'
American people love to De nun
bugged.'" Then he had the unlimited
Impudence to write book ehutie'
"The aumbugs Of the World" In tina
> book he showed how he had humDugse'
, the American people. "Oh, yes" the.
saw. at never pays to be honest In
man who can cheat and deceive an'
liz and steal the most In business
] the man who makes the greatest sue
e cess in mercantile life" Is that you
D oninion OF mercantile life? Well, M
D friend. want to tell you that you ar
q wrong. and wrong in toto. There Is
9 survival Of the 6ttest in the mora
!, world All other things being equa
e the man who Is true and honest an
( upright and just is the man VINO WI
q win In business life, and not the SCOUT
drel.
b Fair Dealing.
s The merchant who Is successtui
# the true sense Of the word is not III
n man who cheats his customers, but I'll
n man who will give his customers nor
y for their money than any one else WI
" give. A great merchant builds up d
% business by winning the confidence an
le the respect Of q community, not D
y, selling them shoddy goods. The stor
D. Is told that many years ago ne
t trader went out to live among the II
II dams. No sooner had he landed al
IS onened his store than the Indian chl'
ee came TO him and bought some good
or The chief said. Il pay you tomorro"
I'd The next day the Indian chief returhe
e. with many members Of his tribe. Inc
so no commenced to pay the trader II
~ his goods. He gave him one ott
IS. slxin then another skin, then anotn
Sc skin and then another skin until
,ir had given to him four skins. II
ry goods were worth just about 10
lis skins Then the chief drew out bea
lit tiful otter skin and offered it also. 1
90 offered this fifth skin to test the ira
th er's honesty. Chief" said the TRACE
be "I do not want that fifth skin. II
ds have paid me enough" The lndll
H. chief said: mo, no. White man, ia
re this skin also" Again and again [
ed white trader refused. mo, chief" sa
We he "you have paid me enough.
ne not want any more" With that
ge Indian chief gave q grunt Vi S"'iSh'
ho ton. He turned to bis warriors a
so said: Come, trade with paleface.
ok honest man." Then turning to |
er. white trader he said: "Paleface, 81
ed nose YOU take that last skin, indian
re, trade with you. Then me know J
In dishonest white man." All. yes the
fly Indian trader knew the law of the 8
I'LL yival of the fittest In the busln'
wn world. The way the great nercha
Its builds up his true business success
the not by cheating his customers, Dut
IS always being honest, always true
ers always trying to give his custom
the more for their money than they
'ay get In any other store.
sht AS there is a survival or the NIT
10 IN the physical and mental ana INC
Ie." realms, so there is also a survival
val the spiritual realm. Charles Dar'
ma. never meant to apply this sentence
OF the spiritual world but God does I
the emphatically does this In the WORDS