Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1888-04-17
MISCELLANEOUS.
Monthly Auction Trade Jour
nal for April.

nal for April.
"AUcT1oN GooDs lh shrieks the old regular
in agony and despair, as If that bitter wailing
wd help or save him. Tho hamcr of the red
flag butcher has not toncht the fabric even tho
it has split or smasht the price In Destiny's
checkered game of mercantile ches ar the thir-
ty thousand agresiy, progresiy, upward and
onward, twenty-fiye-per-cept-c sh-before-de-
livery fellows crazy fools to buy and sci this
" auction stuff" as tho antediIuvion, In his
hopeless credit crucible, characterizes our
solid sledghamers and our terrific triphamers? !?
Ar thes RRBEL RAcKETs after the DAVIS and
FISLATsoS and JONES stamp. like royal Ben
gal tigers, sweeping everything from their
strait, near and sure path-ar thes mercantile
AsnBTs aud STEWARDS and JAoksoNs off, or
why dus competition, OPPOSITION and monopoly
wilt and wither like lily of May struch by n
huricane7 The :. thirty day dated ahed ded-
lumber" is nailed to the shelys of the hundred
percenter by the solid hardhiters from under
the hamer. No matter how deep the mud. how
scarce the money. or hard the times, and how
dul things look, the money vii come forth from
its hiding place at the comand of the fellow
with his unaproachable, unanswerable "corn
aud cob crushers." Dus not an anual increas
of a million and a haf of the largest auction
house of the continent and of the world, comp
led with the doubling, trebling and quadrup-
ling of its distinguished and conspicuous gen.
erals all over the country give the lie to the
big-harted, short-sited, long-winded aristo-
cratic ledger victim, who learns nothing in the
shifting dynasties aud changing scenes of the
great mercantile panorama of the worlds me-
tropolis7
At the Homo of 1reciaimabie Inebriatcs, the
records read that of every hundred, twelv re-
form and regain their former prestige and sta
tion. The cold-blooded statistix of Dun's Mer-
camille Agency prov that but five escape from
the even hundred, and of thes ninty-fv but four
ever emerge from the ruins, simply to show
that in the criminal calender of life CREDIT
outranx BLUGRAS.
All mel what dcd courage, what piles of
bleached bones that was once the concentration
of all that was great and lofty and true-what
aspirations, ambitions, enterprise and resOlu-
tion-what genius, integrity and unsulied
names, have been swept from the tablets of
time into oblivion by King Credit and his bar
barian half brother-PartnGrshipl
This ritter has been Tier. Imagin, II you can.
q defeated Confed-without rations, half
starved himself, his magnificent GREY (cap-
tured near Winchester) even hungrier-traVel-
ing over the weary road from APPoMATTox 10
SHANNON HILI-beging n little corn bread of
the roadside log cabin. A year, and n long one
it was, at home on the farm. Imagine
CHARLES BROADWAY RoUss after the cradle,
sheaf and sheaf about. melting in the harvest
sun 10l in the shade and husking corn, snow
two feet deep, at zero and below. with the
wind cutting his ears and nose off! Utterly uu-
able to endure the terrible, unromantic, unprof-
liable life-to Baltimore. Meeting an old army
comrade. McVeigh Cwho fel desperately wound
ed in our last battle, riding side by side with
this writer), he asked the chances for n little
stOk of goods of his firm, HODGES Bros CNo
charge, Mayor Hodges, for this adyertisment.)
He Got gerry good Indeed. After introduction
and customary compliments, the asets and lia-
bilities wer cald for. This ritter then ansered
that tho he hadn't a dollar, and his antebellum
dets amounted to eleven thousand, he still had
that self-conidence, that ilimitably ability and
inhexible resolution that wd surely comand
success, and that ''sone day" he wd stand along
side with him, at 0e top. During this earnest
appeal, the Millionaire wore a care-worn. tired,
far away look, and when It was thro he turned
to McVeigh, aud in hoarse whisper, said ::
"Let him down easy, Mac-Asets, nothing !;
liabilities, S11, ,OO0"
In the last titanic struggles around Paris,
Marshal Ney, the brayest of the brave, intima-
ted to the great soldier that it was hopeless,
and the time for surrender had come. EAPo-
LEON ansered simply, - 1t tods lcorse at Areo-
Ia" And the heroic but unequal fight went on
to the end. It WAS WORSE in the after
struggles with the two monstrous kIngs-CRED-
1T and CoPARTNERsHIP-when their allied
forces and influences left the Church street
wreck forty-eight thousand less than nothing.
not even q name, and shorn of prestige, pride
and every earthly possession, save about q ton
of pure solid Piuk How many reders of thes
mOnthlies can match this awful, tragic picture
of desolation, desperation and ruin, ueI- and
dbsottGe3 They who have nothing, ar nearly
fifty Thousand richer; and this memorable and
melancholy picture Is presented 70 that elias of
men who pas their prime in unavailing regrets,
because God AImity does not come down from
Heaven and give them a chance and n lift, as
well as TO another elias, who ar richer in al that
constitutes Welth, and goes TO make up success,
than the iron band resolute as death itself, that
flung 10 the breeze its " auction flag in Church
st. on that evcntful, unforgoten morDingI
Ther ar millions in ded capital Iyin dormant
for want of industry, pIuk and determination
-ther ar thousands who eud comand early and
rapid prosperity. had they a 1.-THE of the un-
daunted resolution of MARY LYONS, LIZZIE
RUSSELL, ANNIE HAISEs and thousands of
other herofnes who hay crusht coalition. COM
bfnation and competition, and who make this
riter feel small when recording their magnla-
cent victories.
GarfuIy digest every argument and ProPo-
sition and theory of thes mOnthIies. L Is the
experience not of one man but of many, who
have like this ritter, basked In the tropfx and
frozen among the gIacier-who have seem the
morning of prosperity turninto staTless midnite