Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-07-24

do about this fact? Are you going to
4 let your brains lie dormant? Because
some have been cobblers for twenty
years, are you still to be a cobbler
now7 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
Announcements of the times in the way
some nearsighted Pennsylvania farm
/ ers did many years ago? | NAV not
| be giving these facts exactly right,
but the story 1 am telling is 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 a certain township. The
| farmers rose up in protest They said:
"If we alloy this railroad to be built
it will do an the hauling. Our farms
| will be broken up, and our horses will
be 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 railroad
going into Pittsburg took another
course. The old farmers township is
now sidetracked- 1t is nothing but a
simple country town. On the other
hand, the valley through which that
railroad now runs is prosperous and
wealthy. Land has doubled and
trebled in value. There is an inevita-
BILE law of the survival of the fittest
in brains. How are you grasping your
opportunities? Are you trying to make
the world travel in stagecoaches and
canal boats when the shrieking
whistle Of the Overland Limited is
calling it's passengers to get aboard?
If you do not develop your brains,
then, by the law Of man and the law
Of God, to the wall you must go. 1.-THE
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 to it's
highest possibilities.
But the fittest survive in the moral
world as we'll as in the physical and
the mental The man who is honest
and true and noble will always, in the
long run, win over the man who is de-
ceitful and dishonest. There is abso-
lutely no doubt about it. All other
things being equal, there is a survival
of the fittest in the moral realm Yet
to hear some people talk you would
suppose that it never pays to be hon
est or truthful in business life.
'Sell where you can sell the dearest.
Buy where you can buy the cheapest.
Get all Of the money out Of the people
you can without landing in JAIL" is
their motto. Look at P. E. Barnum's
success" they say. "In one of his
books the great Snowman says, The
American people love to be hum
bugged.'" Then he had the unlimited
impudence to write a book entitled
1.-THE Humbugs Of the World" In that
book he showed how he had humbugged
the American people. 'Oh, yes" they
say, ut never pays to be honest. The
man who can cheat and deceive and
lie and steal the most in business is
the man who makes the greatest sue
cess in mercantile life" Is that your
opinion of mercantile life? Well, my
friend, want to tell you that you are
wrong, and wrong in toto. There is a
survival Of the fttest in the moral
world. All other things being equal,
the man who is true and honest and
upright and just is the man who will
win in business life, and not the scoun-
drel
Fair Dealing.
The merchant who is successful in
the true sense of the word is not the
man who cheats his customers, but the
man who will give his customers more
for their money than any one else will
give. A great merchant builds up his
business by winning the confidence and
the respect of a community, not by
selling them shoddy goods. The story
Is told that many years ago a new
trader went out to live among the In i
dams. No sooner had he landed and
opened his store than the Indian chief
came to him and bought some goods.
The chief said, Il pay you tomorrow"
The next day the Indian chief returned
with many members of his tribe. Then
ne commenced to pay the trader for
MS goods. He gave him one otter
skin, then another skin, then another
skin and then another skin until he
mad given to him four skins. The
goods were worth just about four
skins. Then the chief drew out beau
tlful otter skin and offered it also. He
offered this fifth skin to test the trad
er's honesty. Chief" said the trader.
I do not want that fifth skin. You
have paid me enough" The Indian
chief said: No, no. White man. take
this skin also" Again and again the
white trader refused. mo, chief" said
he, you have paid me enough. I do
not want any more With that the
Indian chief gave grunt of satisfac-
ton. He turned to his warriors and