Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1888-10-16
MISCELLANEOUS.
Monthly Auction Trade journal
for October.
Credit is the lightning expires to destru

lottery laws no amount of curagc, or enter
prise, or genius. or ambition cud ever hope to
win in the fierce and unequal struggle for
mastery. The Leviathan in the shackles of
the ledger, is simply game and laflng stok for
the Liliput with his triphammers under the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. laws. 1t is SIM
ply q question of q little time when the old
timer, with his terifk tariff, his mamoth stok,
his colaterals, mills, farms and mule teams,
shall be driven to the jumping off place by the
sharpshootcr with his whcelbarrow of leders
his transferable voleys ut a quik, sharp,
murdcrous 25 per cent. money down.
And tho old stifncckcr will never learn
Year after year he stands over his orders to
the peripatetic periodical of unlimited time
with eternity dating. then slapping on the old
fashioned one per cent.-titcr and liter, rs the
asets are crowding into the ledger, harder and
harder, as the duns and drafts and the devil
pres him, until the tired, worn out wheel will
turn no longer. Do You wonder, then. why
som merchants diug-dong forever the thrcdbar
sing-song of hard times, scarcity of money,
keen competition, of mud and storm. of poll
Tx. religion and fate. ending up with the de-
struction of the world by fire and birthstone
ALI me- the drolery of thcs full-of-faith
and wcary-oflife idiotic irreconsilables.
This ritter can hardly keep his face straight
listening to thes comik, prehistoricalities with
folded arms looking up into eternal space wat
ing fo- the Great Jehovah to come down from
the sky aud . = show 'em how"
Hard times what insuferablc nonsense! the
times are just as u choose to have it. Do You
ever hear the cash-betore-dclivery uncondi-
tional with his unanserablc jaw smnshers,
yelping the plaintiv old yeip of hard times ?
Never the problem that cOnfrOnts him is how
to get 4 little cOruponc and n little sleep, and
then in the romance of Dreamland's fairy bat
ties he carves out his strategic mauuvres
for the moro. In the busy, bristling. bustling
crowd choking the bargain counters there's
little time to think. les to cat, and absolutely
none TO worry the Good Lord.
And vet piety swears that it was the alInity
and not the generals and lcdcrs and fitting
force of Charles Croadway Rouss, that led the
master of King Credit from oblivion to the top
that it was the mystery of mysteries who's
business it is to keep 4 billion times a billion
worlds whirling through infinite space, and
not the iron rule of undcrby and underscll for
bulion. ! get tired of life listening to these
counterfeit. clevcr-hartcd, chnk-ful-of-fablc-
faith-and- ictiOn-fclows. and often wish |
never had been born. Reminding me of q hot
tempered Dutchnlan. an old personal friend.
who got into q quarrel with a brother cOun-
tryman. Ihad forgotten my academic Ger
man. and he nu it, and he kept the fire up IN
the Fatherland tung. until. as lie after said
ther wasn't any words in the German vOcabiI-
larry that relieved him as did the singing.
scorching, expressly cusing of the passionate
American.
In the battle for mastery every hiden force
ads to the chances. and lessons the time. litcns
the load and shortens the road Genius and
ambition are the gliding stars, APPLICATION and
perseverance,. industry and hOld-fast ar indis-
pcnsiblc alicS-adorn thcs with courtesy. in
:cgrity and audacity. and drive your enter
prise under the neutrality-suspicious.
system, and success will date from the hOur of
resolution when L put your shoulder to the
wheel in perfect love with yourself and your
work.
-TrIi|S-evcrything-it was the maker of
Napolean and Washington and Lee and Jack
son. II traut to the lite from obscurity Girard
mud Hopkins and CIafin and Stewart 1t was
nothing else but this self same potent force
that drove the Church street dcSpcratcs from
the ashes of the absolute and utter ruin 10 the
very top. Napoleon at Marcn@o. Washington
at Trenton. AruOle ut Saragola. Lee facing the
world under Grant, Jackson at ChancclOrs-
vile. What grand. magnificent. thrilling his
toric pictures And yet in the lives of all there
az hours that call for that same stern stuff
that painted on the arcades of time thcs awful
fadeles. tragic. und ying, memorable scenes.
And it Is this all powerful metic that coins
heroes from commonplace. and the want of it
that crowds the dens masses of mcdiOcrity
down into oblivion. Many Il mercantile mas
ter has faut his way toward the top until the
hour for decision cald forth that subtle stuff.
RcsolutiOn-this in the life of al is the turning
point, one road leads to defeat, the other to
victory. And how easy now to look bak over
the hckcrcd life of vicissitudc. and note the
hour when the aspirations of n lifetime hun"
giircring in the balance. What wud we not
Civ to recall that iTreclaimahlc moment? That
was the supreme crisis in life when the broken
harted wud hav flung to the winds his Ofs-bible
and loaded his repeter with bullion. At the
fftieth mile post it is not too late. This au-
thor was forty. Davis was fOrty-fOur. Lexing-
ton Pursell was nineteen. kOlir. twcnty-thrcc.
Ashcvilie Jones thirty-twO, Raleigh PrTsell
fifty-fivc. and my father was sixty when he
walked out of the prison pen at Fort Delaware.
How well we can recount the hosts of illus
triOus names, that. in this metropolis had at
tanned. adorned and honorcd hi position. hut
when the vital issues of life were presented. in
that supreme trial which tests, at one time or
another, al of us. irrcsolutiOn led them out
into the eternal, unknown-unonOrcd and for
gotten.
md yet. Intelligent. wide-awakc, bang-up
pcple look on and learn not. They see Il
brother INGREDIENT stricken down with credit
palsy. and iuStcd of jumping from that ilfatcd