Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1889-03-07

farm, walking from the field with my ia-
ther at night (aiter dark often reielod
to that clever record at Winchester, Va,
and boasted that | would eclipse the
achievements of The carly Waterloos in
the splendor of early lriumfs in the Me
tropolis, to which, in irony, he would usu-
ally answer: where vii L get cartare
to New York p
Pardon the ramble, but people like TO
have illustrations; tha want facts, not
theory-rcaliIy, not the idle dream.
The author of net spot cash landed at
the Battery March 2Olh, 1866, penniless,
aged 80, slept in the Oak street police
station, and next morning cat at the As
tor house free lunch. and took look at
the future battle field. After rcpulscs
That wd smash steel, met agen the Ward
laws. Robert had q wholesale stok at
war prices AID he cudn't move 'em. and
kindly ask my advice. gave it, freely,
when he took me along home with him,
when, for the first Time since | left home,
slept in Il bed and had Il square meal
three months. We moved the stok TO
Brooklyn, spiced up with auction pur-
chases, sent out thousands of handbills
cut at % per cent. carved down the old
war figures and swung open the doors.
All, my God, that crowd \ thousand a
day, until one day my old friend passed
into the eternal, and haut the stock Of
his brother on one years time, and paid
for it in lhiriy-six days, ard walked out
of the concern after four months, with
$4,000 in clean, hard cash Seven months
before, on one of liie's darkest days. ]
had left home with just money enough
to carry me to New York. it was the
close, quick % per cent. and great agrc-
gales. Then came the Gettysburg OF
1873, that buried The greatest but one
merchant that ever lived and among
thousands of others king credit drove this
ritter beyond the oblivion liue-but only
for a da In the carly morn he stood up,
undaunicd, and thru down the gantlet Of
war. The lines were hard, but strait, the
-ooI ,oe ,,nfro.iI--.. -. 'i.,.~ nee. '',. -
ternaliyc, aud The proiecy was then made
that the credit barbalian's stalislix should
be reycrscd-iuslCad of six survivors oul
of every hundred, we would have ninety
four victors to every six who persisted IN
the delh trap of his Internal magcsly.
Then came litc's last, lost Marengo. The
loriieth mile post had sped by. Never
wcr ods greater, never chances more per
tcclIy desperate. The prosperous au-
dacily Of iuauguraiing The net spot ca,h
fifty ihou,and in dct-wilhout one So.
litary dollar! IN mimic, tragic Gilcs OF
fancy, ii always reminded the ritter Of the
heroic struggles OF Frederic, Of Bruce and
the great Napoleon.
The dimiuutv pile Of auction goods
the bundle Of nerv aud pluk and ambi
ton, and the five rer cent wer BIZ cards,
and maguifod and multiplied with saw
age intensity. We settled down beside
rich concerns and swept past them with
perfect unconcern. Breaking al records,
and quadrupling-demaudcd
larger quarters year after year, until thor
Is not single available bildiug in the
metropolis, ard we are driven TO buy and
1ild, and our uuparaleld marches from
obscurity to The top, is perfect parald
to thousands Of our representatives wlo
hav followed our lines, ,iuk 10 our ir,n
laws, and keeping fully abresl, hav kcEt
PACE with, and Ia many Instance, beaten
our marvellous record.
Tho. magnificent mercantile mclcrrs
understand perfectly the single Ihrcds ! y
which victory Laugs suspended. Ore
way is TO get L can, and Other 10 .cl as
cheap rs YOU can aad wher The champions
meet it, don't take long To settle The cues
ton. The shadows Of oblivion steal sire
ly over The hundred pcrccnior, Whit the
popular, progrcsiv and successful iavoriIe
marches with esy rapid sirid,s 10 neri:cd
prominence and prosperity.
And do ibes old-iime, colosal concerns
who buy and sci on time, and Try 10 le' d
their unfortunate friends over the same d..
faled rulroads--do thes gigantic shops with
unlimited credit, who -bave Comc-iic- clos,
and -corch L like fire on all other line, do
aha ever counsel lheir patrons 10 sci cheap,
and cut clos and quik for the mony down?
Do iha demand a, we do a compliance with
the mperaiiv laws that always command
success? Alas, - "a rule, tha invariably
chukle over the big profits their customers
can pil. on, when all The records and rcsuts
Of al our surcs-iu merchants lead in IRE
ci-ely the opo.i,e direction. Tie iutelec-
tual force. Or upward and onward, not bak
ward, and we are too near the dawn Of The