Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-09-09

gain counter you feel that every one Is
there training for college football
field and you are the center rush"
while every woman has right to push
you, and you are called mo gentle
man. II you dare TO push back. Women
have certain rights where no man has
any rights. One OF their rights Is TO
be left In undisputed possession Of a
woman's dry goods store.
One Talented People.
But. though you may have many I'M
fortunate experiences while shopping
with your wife In great city. there Is
one powerful lesson you will learn
there. This IL the lesson: When you
enter great dry goods emporium,
where millions OF dollars worth OF
goods are sold every year. the floor
walker who greets you ut the door. the
clerk who sells you the goods over the
counter. the delivery boy who hands
the parcels In at the door. are all one
talented folks. II that clerk Is disre-
spectful. IL the young man In the shoe
department does not walt upon you
patiently and kindly, you leave that
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 will buy.
Is not this illustration an overwhelm-
ing proof to you of the mighty in
fiuence and power OF the one talent
people?
The one talent clerk may say: II am
only an insignificant atom In my en-
ployer's business. I am only drop
OF water In n great ocean. two and
one-half miles deep and 5000 miles
wide. nm only leaf amid whole
forest of autumnai foliage. am only
n little Pickering candlelight In ho-
rizon ablaze with the flaming chart
OTIS of the noontide sun. do not
amount TO anything" Oh. yes. my
brother, you do. As n clerk In the
store. as typewriter or salesman or
saleswoman you are not an insignif-
icant atom. though you may be occu-
plying Il small place You are not n
drop Of water amid an ocean Of heav-
ing pillows. You are not leaf or
candlelight dimmcd by the glory OF
the noontide sun. but you are the cogs
Of al. tnt
tial TO make the wheel move. II the
little cogs are gone, then the wheel
stops. If the wheel stops, then all the
vast machinery Of the factory Is halt
ed. In the great railroad engine the
boiler. generating the steam which
draws tho long line Of freight cars. Is
absolutely essential, but are not the
piston rods and the driving wheels and
the truck and the coal tender and the
furnace and all the other parts Of the
locomotive just as essential!
Not 20 De Despised.
What would you think OF the long
branches of great tree looking down
In disgust ut the roots just exposed
when the sol Is turned over by the
farmers spade! What would you think
II those branches would say: ''Oh. you
filthy, dirty roots. Why are you In
yonder darkness? Can you not array
yourselves In my coat OF many colors?
will have none OF you" Well. today
the owner Of the great dry goods store
can no more be independent Of his
clerks than the tree branch can be in
dependent of the tree root. What
would you think of the wood OF the
tall mast despising the wood OF the
ships keel? Can the hand say to the
wrist. Il have no need OF thee" Can
the foot say TO the eye. II have no
need OF thee?" Can the heart say to
the lung. Il have no need Of theeT
Neither can the glass office say TO the
counter, II have no need Of thee" The
one talent clerk Is just as essential for
the marvellous developments OF the
mercantile world as Is the ten talent
merchant or the ten talent capitalist.
The Hebrew talent Is no Insignificant
capital which God places In the hand
OF the ordinary. everyday. common
place clerk who sells US our goods over
the store counter.
But II we speak well Of the one talent
clerk shall we not also speak well OF
the worldwide influence OF the one tai
ented mechanic and the one talented
labOrer and the one talented engineer
and the one talented carpenter and the
one talented mason and all the one tai
ented men who WELD saw and strike
hammer and drop plumbllne and push
plane! Is not the workman whose def
fingers make the piano just as essen
tial for the worlds melodies as the
musicians whose sensitive touch make
the great bellows OF harmony rear
themselves and dash themselves into
white foam upon the coral reefs OF
white ivory keys? Shall we not honor
today the Stradivarlus who manufac-
lures the vlolins. as well as the Paga-
minis and the ole Bulls who can make
the strings weep and wall or laugh AMI
sing when they wave over them the
touch Of their magic bows? Are not
Gutenberg's disciples who give TO us
the printed page Just as essential for