Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1889-04-02

-sales down to % cents q day, in fact the
country is going to hell on a double quik-no
remittance. not enut to pay clerks or the rent
with au abiding faith In the God Of battles,
hope the clouds will soon roll by"
Now, thes same fellows snacht from the very
jaws of defeat; and inspired by the magic mag
netism and deying yell of the Rebel Racketer,
uuderbuv aud undersel, jump from the rotten
craft as she sank beneath the dark waves, and
now listen to him; /" We got thro last night
Saturday-at half-past twelve; s2les for tho
day, s1,o55! How's that for stok of 81, GOO,
beginning a year ago with s1,5oO7-Herr, of
st. Joe, Mo-
Life is too short in this whirling. settling age
of progress to talk about the old-fashloued wa
of solving the mercantile problem. 1t takes
too long, aud the road too hard and uncer-
tain, aud with niuety-four blank out of an
even hundred, the chances are absolutely desi
perate, and the 25 per center, with his grape
and canister, perfectly paralyzing the other
six. What in the name of the great jehovah,
who led the "chnsen children" through the
walled waters of the red sea, is tho use Of in-
viting defeat when you can comand success
in running after the Padn peple with the pal-
try pie of favor. friendship and unlimited tim,
when U can make them run after U and plank
down the almity dollar for your matchless,
marvellous advertisements and sledghammers
from under the red flag and the black
Yes. when 1 read of these irresistible sharp
shooters who were but yesterday among the
ded nndthe buried. and had changed tue blak
clouds into brite sunshinc-driviugr regular ded
lumber like chat before the blast-like the le-
gions of HooIer's panic stricken fugitives be-
devils do you wonder that these lacouic mes
tllnse and inspire-that the belyband snaps,
the poverty of imagination and language op-
presses. and the relentless fangs sink deeper
and deeper to the very quill?
The poor devil who had through long years
tussled with the tiger of time, losing grip md
ground as the hard season wore along, one da
caut site of the NJ. A. T. j., aud his tired,
broken hart cant fire aud his pulses blood
jumpt and thrild aud throbed, and he swore
he cud do what Charles Broadway Rouss or
any other man had done, md this mercantile
desperate. smasht beyond recognition, but
armed with undHunted resolution-with
thousand Che must have broken into some
bank, for he.hadn't dollar) million in pluE,
and million behind him. he thru down tho
gage of battle to his internal magesty who
held North Carolina by the comercinl jugular
and who has not heard of Davis and Pur-
cell aud2-well, 'the woods is full OF en-"
Never gcin halfharted- d-go with the resolu-
tion TO win or-let me see. think it wns Pat
rick Henry, Liberty or DEATH" Tue general
asked the chivnlrOus May: Can U take that
bntery2" "Tll try" It was carried. but he fell.
The President told Zachary Taylor to take
Fort Brown. BE nnsered--"I'n be there to-
mite. ded or alive''-and he was. The chief of
Police was aslit il he nud-drivc that car over
the route and bring 1t back. s'I'll do Il OF d."
That's the talk. OF such metal is coined tho
"dcathless heroes who brave doth for the dar-
ling salsa." Itmust and It viii always win.
The 25 per centageis not theory, but tre-
mcndus reality. 1t is at retail what Eve per
cent. IS at wholesale-the short, quik, tru
wa. 1t has been thoroughly tested aud DEM
onstratcd by this ritter in his own career. aud
others whom he started in life.
| Beginning at Winchester in 1854 with s5OO.
In sOven years under this iron rule tho capital
had sweld to sGS,OOO. Passing over the four
years of bloody carnage. the author of not
spot cash determined upon LARGER battlefield
the Metropolis, ritely reasoning that If he
cud accomplish such results in a little dcd and
buried old city Of +, GOO that proportionate re
suits wud folio wher ther was no limit to popu-
lation, aud altho ratio demanded relative i'm
creas of capital, the treasury of the Appomat-
tON veteran was not only Mt zero. but eleven
thousand below, and pluk was substituted for
luck, and grim resolution and insatiRte ambi-
tioh for the Almighty Dollar. Victory came
speedily and in great volume and the recon-
structed confederate already looked out upon
the hi plateau wher the great and victorious
Mercantile generals stood gazing upon the
changing panorama beneath. But Napoleon
had not counted upon the iron soulcd Bluch-
er, who saved Wellington at Waterloo, and In
one short hour the britest, historic genius
that world has ever nown, sank behind the
horizon. In our majestic march TO mastery
ther apeared sudenly-Iike the irresistible old
Prussian with his dcns, blak columns sweep
ing over the hills-in our path barbaric mon-
ster. who in a single da swept with relentless
fury into annlhiliatiOn every yestige of cOlos-
sal aggregates. and tore from the victim his
wealth. prestige, power, all-sayc uuyieldiDg
| pluk and ambition.
! Then came the after years of sieepless ven
geance. and unparalleled triumf. The last bat-
tie of life was risl<t upon that winning card
that has won for the concern and It's lion hart
ed licutcnants al over the Union that success
that apparently has no limit-thc twenty-five
per cent. net spot cash. From the Hole In
the Wall" in Church street, with asets fifty
Thousand below par, hting millions and mil
lions aud IDillions From that little 'srat trap
with less than $50 in auction trash (tba cald it
then) that Otter turned dozen times a day
Yes, from that historic spot TO 35I and 80 and
3JG to 341. and then 4G6 and 46s. next to $40,
| 551 and 553, and then on TO Greenwood! >
And the robins viii sing their sweet
songs, the wild winds whistle. over the hills
and far away" the bright -snDshiDe, the liIax
| bloom. the blak l5HYes roI on. and time In fts
| eternal sweep and scope and stretch Ineaeu re
al things past, present and future by the arith-
metic of the everlasting master.
CHARLES BROADWAY RoUss,
New York City.