Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-09-09

field and you are the center rush.
while evey woman has a right to push
YOU. and you are called mo gentle
man. If you dare to push back. Women
have certain rights where no man mas
any rights. One of their rights Is 10
be left In undisputed possession OF
woman's dry goods store.
One Talented People.
But though you may have many un-
fortunate experiences while shopping
with your wife in great city, there N
one powerful lesson you VIII iearn
there, This Is the lesson: When you
enter a great dry goods emporium,
where millions of dollars worth Oh
goods are sold every year, the moor
walker who greets you at the door, the
clerk who sells you the goods over tne
counter. the delivery boy who hands
the parcels In at the door, are all one
talented folks. II that clerk is disre-
spectful. II the young man IN the Snoe
dena,fnent does not wait upon you
patiently and kindly, you leave tnat
store In disgust. In large dry goods
store as an ordinary customer you
never meet the manager or the great
European buyer or the owner OF the
store. You deal with the common one
talent clerk. Nearly all the goods in a
large retail store are sold by one talent
clerks. and the way those clerks treat
their employers customers decides
how much those customers VIII Duy'
Is not this illustration an oyerwhelm-
ing proof to you Of the mighty ln-
fluence and power Of the one talent
peopleg m
The one talent clerk may say: i am
only an insignificant atom in my en-
ployer's business. | am only urop
ot writer In n great ocean, two ana
one-half miles deep and 1900 miles
wids i am only a leaf amid whole
forest OF autumnal foliage. l am only
a little filckering candlelight In no
rizon ablaze with the flaming charl-
ots of the noontide sun. l DO mol
amount to anything" Oh, yes, my
brother. you do. AS a clerk In th'
store, as typewriter or salesman VI
n saleswoman you are not an insighil
icant atom. though you may be occu
pying a small place. You are not
drop of water amid an ocean OF heaV
ing billows. You are not lear OF
, candlelight dimmed by the glory o
; the noontide sun, but you are the cog
NJ n wheel which are absolutely essen
tial To make the wheel move. III IN
: little cogs are gone, then the Whee
! stops. If the wheel stops, then all th
D vast machinery Of the factory Is hal'
;. cd In the great railroad engine IN
: boiler. generating the steam whic
i draws the long line Of freight cars
e absolutely essential, but are not I'll
5 n,ston rods and the driving wheels an
A tho truck and the coal tender and I'll
d furnace and all the other parts OF u
s locomotive just as essentialf
k Not to BE Despised.
d What would you think Of the Ion
Z branches Of a great tree looking 90"
l. IN disgust at the roots just expose
q when the sod is turned over Dy u
s. farm. re spade? What would you tnir
r ~ those branches would say: "On, yC
n 6Ithv dirty roots. Why are you
n vonder darkness? Can you not arrs
n Yourselves In my coat Of many color'
k 7 will have none of you" Well, tod'
50 the owner of the great dry goods $40
lie can no more be independent or 4
n clerks than the tree branch can be
ls denendent of the tree root. Wh
IS would you think Of the wood OF Z
u tall mast desplsing the wood OF |
le sbIn's keel? Can the hand say 10
III wrist. II have no need OF theeF u
)h tho foot say to the eye, II nave
az need of thee?" Can the heart say
NJ tho hnp "I have no need of thee
ne Neither can the glass office say 10
JIG counter. "I have no need OF thee.
re one talent clerk is just as essentiai
'h- the marvellous developments OF
s. mercantile world as is the ten tai'
merchant or the ten talent captain
NJ The Hebrew talent Is no insigninc'
We capital which God places In the ha
Nv Of the ordinary, everyday, comm
on Mace clerk who sells US our goods o
ei the store counter.
he But If we speak well Of the one tai
'nt clerk shall we not also speak wei
lrt tho worldwide influence Of the one
re- enttd mechanic and the one taleh
or laborer and the one talented englh
len and the one talented carpenter ana
l&t ono talented mason and all the one
'ed onted men who WELD saw and stI
me hammer and drop plumbline ana p
10 nlane? Is not the workman whose
nat fingers make the piano just as es'
ext tiol for the worlds melodies as
rv- musicians whose sensitive touch IN
I'D the great bellows OF harmony
unit themselves and dash themselves
ma white foam upon the coral reels
the white ivory keys? Shall we not nc
the today the Stradivarius who manu-
rch tures the violns, as well as the II
one minis and the Ole Bulls who can IL
out the strings weep and wall or laugh
sing when tney wave o'Si
pom touch Of their magic bowsT Are
also Gutenberg's disciples who give te
'lks the printed page just as essentlal
has the dissemination Of knowledge Us
brain Of Galilei or the sacred pei
,nce Thomas Kempis or the rugged
ner- ouence of Thomas Carlyle or the ma
day less literary creations OF VIII
us shakespeare or the freside song
off Henry Longfellow or Eugene flelo
end The chisel of the one talented 81
nent cutter writes whole pages In the
ing. ters Of the worlds progress Us we
ntai the pen of the statesman, the arcn
lnan and the social sage. Henry
'iace Beecher some years ago III SCI
ms yividly described an expert SION
oous ter coming into this country as al
you migrant. He knows no one an
ho' one knows him, but when ne ap
ul- for ,,,orl at one of the big Stoney