Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-08-10

Is the duty of every man, whose asA
biratiOns are bent upon success, that
he buy wiicre he can get the best value
for the money and it is a double duty
you owe yourself and those you love
and who are to come after you and
whose fortunes and future you are
shaping, to sell your special leaders
and high bargains close, but for the
cash only, everytime.
The private soldier who sped the
bullet that stilled the great heart of
Albert Sydney johnson, the mortal
Jackson and the chivalrous Stuart did
greater service to the Federal arms
than either Sherman, Sheridan or
! Grant; and that man who turns from
the luckIes road of credit, his brother
merchant, and leads him out upon the
broad road to substantial success by
planking down the solid cash does a
greater service to the mercantile world
than the giants who urged and drove
them on in credit harness until black
ruin was all that was left them: con-
Germs that ranked with Stewart, Clafiin
and Jaffray lured and led them on by
temptations they were made to resist,
in the shape of big credits, long time
and enormous profits.
No wonder they are driven TO rum
and ruin-to the rope; the razor or
the revolver.
Ali had they needed these kindly
admonitions, this unanswerable phi
l0sophy and these matches figures
that no other house can name, they
might, forgetting the dreadful mis-
fortunes of the irreclaimable past;
pitching in like Sampson among the
l'hilistines. have obtained and adorned
high position, towering above the old
regular rs the everlasting and eternal
pyramids above the burning sands OF
Egypt. ~
That every man possess the abiity
to command success is unquesttoned,
If he has an honest heart and level
head. and his energies are rightly di-
rected, needing these kindly pre-
ccpts. steering clear of the grim and
CHASTITY Cancer of Credit, but fasteR-
ing his faith upon the ALSIGHTY DoLI
LAR alonel
Thousands of merchants, young
and old. are starting business every
year. The old stock generally have
experience, hat the young must acII
quire it whatever price, and word
of advice may save many craft that
was destined to go to the bottom in
mid ocean. One word Mt the critical
hour might have saved such colossal
concerns as LathrOp, Luddington;
Peake, Opdychc & Co.. HOyt,
Spragucs, Loeb & Co.. CCchraneI
Mclean & Co., Moore & jenkins, and
n host of others whose name is Lee
gion. A whisper to some tiny craft
about to embark upon the broad
wastes of the ocean may save it from
the pitiless hurricane that buried the
Vera Cruz and its priceless treasure
of human life.
From the very ashes Of the ruins
from the oblivion of annihilation-s
our own little enterprise has pushed
its way to the front rank by watching
the crooked assignee, the crafty mar
shal, in following the sheriff in his
winding ways, and in knowing and
probcrly approaching the rafting
devil who lets fall the auctiOncer's
hammer, which settles finally the
question OF ownership of bottom
values.
From these quarters, and wherever
the want of money was felt, our
buyers, young in years. old in expe-
rience. ripe in rare judgment, briGl-
ful of audacious pluck, carrying with
them rs they march over these fields
of triumph. that lever that makes or
breaks alike the master and the imi=
tator, the genius or the numbskull:
Unless you answer and meet these
issues to-day they will come up again
and again in after life when you may
not have the chance, time or power
to master them-the Waterloo of life
should he fought before 40, not after
and yet most men put it off until the
mile post of 6O-tO this writer it came
at "a, again at 81, once more and tho
last time at 40; few survive the last
defeat. rarely ever the second, once
or twice in a million the last--of that
million Macy was one and Dan Will
Iiams was the other.
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Brave, peerless, peculiar Danl Like
the Eternal Hickory Jackson, this
heroic mercantile meteor never knew
"HSH he WIS H'HteHf nuI lO"HhS On
with the desperate unconcern Of SOL
dier never born to- perish in the ranks
of mediocrity. Adversely pursued
him with savage and relehties per-
sistency, inch by inch, and arm in arm
with misfortune, crowded him back
to the very edge of annihiIation, but
bis sublime courage, his tremendous
energies and his undannted pluck
carried him from the lowest depths
of humiliation to the final scenes of
splendid success. There was little
sunshine in his stormy and cventful
career. d. T. Williams had his day
with Topping and Maybe and Hoyt
and Hognct and Mounts and Wardlaw.