People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — DO YOUR BEST. [ARTICLE]

DO YOUR BEST.

A Very Helpful Note for Boys Who Will Apply It. No matter what yous business, beat everybody in making and selling the best. The best outlasts ten of the others, and is much the cheapest. Upward of thirty years ago, when David Maydole was a roadside blacksmith at Norwich, N. Y., six carpenters came to the village from the next county to work on a new church. One of them, having left his hammer behind, came to the blacksmith to get one made, there being none that gave satisfaction in the village store. “Make me a good one,” said the carpenter, “as good as you know how.’ “But,” said the young blacksmith, who had already considered hammers, and had arrived at some notion of what a hammer ought to bo, and had proper contempt for cheapness in all its forms, “perhaps you don’t want to pay for as good a hammer as I can make?” “Yes, I do; I want a good hammer.” And sc David Maydole made a good hammer that perfectly satisfied the carpenter. The next day the man’s five companions came, and each of them wanted just such a hammer, and when they were done the employer came and ordered two more. Next the storekeeper of the village ordered two dozen, which were bought by a New York tool merchant, who - left standing orders for as many such hammers as David Maydole could make. And from that day to this he has gone on making hammers, until now he has lIS men at work. He has never pushed, never borrowed, never tried to compete with others in price, because other men have done so. His only care has been to make a perfect hammer, to make as many such as people wanted and no more, and to sell them at ■ fair price.—N. Y. Witness.